Puppet Server is the next-generation application for managing Puppet agents. It is the platform that will carry Puppet's server-side components to a more distributed, service-oriented architecture. It has been built on top of the same technologies that have made PuppetDB successful, and will allow us to make great leaps forward in performance, scalability, advanced metrics collection, and fine-grained control over the Ruby runtime.
Feature requests? Found a bug? Want to see what issues are currently in flight? Please visit our Jira project:
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/SERVER
On EL5 and EL6, if the service is started by executing the init script directly while inside a directory that the puppetserver user doesn't have access to, the service will start, but log errors to /var/log/puppetserver/puppetserver-daemon.log that complain about:
Could not retrieve fact='hostname', resolution='': Failed while executing '/bin/hostname': Cannot run program "/bin/sh" (in directory "/root"): error=13, Permission denied
The current workarounds for this issue are to use service puppetserver start
instead of /etc/init.d/puppetserver start or to invoke the init script from a
directory the puppetserver user will have access to (/usr/share/puppetserver is
a good directory for this).
This is captured in https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/SERVER-3
Cursive is a Clojure IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA. Several of us at Puppet Labs use it regularly and couldn't live without it. It's got some really great editing, refactoring, and debugging features, and the author, Colin Fleming, has been amazingly helpful and responsive when we have feedback. If you're a Clojure developer you should definitely check it out!
JRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs on the JVM. It's a fantastic project, and it is the bridge that allows us to run all of the existing Puppet Ruby code while taking advantage of all of the advanced features and libraries that are available on the JVM. We're very grateful to the developers for building such a great product and for helping us work through a few bugs that we've discovered along the way.