Managing Windows Systems with Puppet - PuppetConf 2013

Managing Windows Systems with PuppetJames SweenyProfessional Services | Puppet Labs [email protected] on irc.freenode.net@jsween_y

Friday, August 23, 13

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Introduction

• Windows Agent overview

• Puppet resource model overview

• Managing Linux vs. managing Windows

• Windows specific challenges and solutions

• Windows oddities that will bite you



Supported Platforms

• Server 2003 and 2003 R2

• Server 2008

• Windows 7/Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server 2012



Installation



msiexec /qn /l*v install.log /i puppet-3.2.4.msi

INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Puppet Enterprise"

PUPPET_MASTER_SERVER="master.domain.com"

PUPPET_AGENT_CERTNAME="agenthost.domain.com"





• C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet

– \sys– \bin



• C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs

- or -

• C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PuppetLabs

– \puppet\var• cached data• plugins

– \puppet\etc• puppet.conf• ssl data



Anatomy of a Puppet run



ResourcesThe fundamental building block



Resource Abstraction



Providers



Linux Resources



So what makes Windows special?



Host Resource



Service Resource



Windows Service



Cron Resource



Cron Scheduled Task Resource



Files

• Line Endings

• Paths

Always ask yourself: “Where is this evaluated”?



Files - Paths

• 'C:\WINDOWS\system32'

• 'C:/WINDOWS/system32'

• "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32"

All are OK, but forward slashes are safer...



Files - Paths

. . . except when a Windows program will read them.



Files - Line Endings^M^M^M

• CRLF vs. LF^M

• Windows uses two characters for^M newlines^M

• Puppet master always runs in Linux^M



Files - Line Endings

• File resources are written in binary

• source with Windows newlines will be preserved

• content will always generate Linux newlines, unless you add them



File Resource - Permissions

• Still specified with Unix-style modes

• Mode must be specified if owner/group are





File Resource - Permissions

• Be careful of case

• Can't set SID



Exec Resource



• Execs run without a shell



32-bit Redirection

• %WINDIR%\Sysnative

• %WINDIR%\System32



Powershell Exec



Powershell Exec Provider



ModulesModules are the best way to organize your code and extend core Puppet

forge.puppetlabs.com

puppet module search <keyword>

puppet module install <author-module>



puppetlabs/registry



puppetlabs/registry



puppetlabs/registry



adenning/winntp



simondean/net_share



trlinkin/domain_membership



More Windows Modules

• puppetlabs/mssql

• simondean/iis

• adenning/winfacts

• jonnyx/msuac

Search 'windows' on forge.puppetlabs.com



MSI Package Provider



MSI Package Provider



Windows Package Provider

• Deprecates msi provider

• Available in Puppet 3.0

• Backports available for Puppet 2.7

• Supports .exe and .msi seamlessly



Centralized Packages

• Versionable and Upgradable

• Linux has it easy

• yum

• apt-get

• zypper



Chocolately

• Third party Windows package manager

• http://chocolatey.org/

cinst my_package

See Rob Reynolds tomorrow in the Fountain Room at 5:10PM!


http://chocolatey.org

http://chocolatey.org


rismoney/chocolatey



DISM

• Server 2008+ Roles and Features

• Install Windows server roles such as

• DNS Server

• DHCP Server

• IIS



puppetlabs/dism



Rebooting



Pending Reboots



Pending Reboots



Windows Reboot



Additional Resources

• http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows

• http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html

• http://puppetlabs.com/blog/part-top-questions-on-puppet-and-windows/

• Puppet Types and Providers by Dan Bode and Nan Liu


http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/windows

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html




http://puppetlabs.com/blog/part-top-questions-on-puppet-and-windows/




Thank You - Questions?James SweenyProfessional Services | Puppet Labs [email protected] on irc.freenode.net@jsween_y

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