Puppet and Flowdock
I’ve written a Puppet report processor that allows you to notify Flowdock - a nifty tool for team collaboration - of failed Puppet runs.
It requires the flowdock gem to be installed on your Puppet master:
$ sudo gem install flowdock
You can then install puppet-flowdock as a module in your Puppet master’s
modulepath. Now update the flowdock_api_key variable in the /etc/puppet/flowdock.yaml
with your Flowdock API key.
Then enable pluginsync and reports on your master and clients in
puppet.conf including specifying the flowdock report processor.
[master]
report = true
reports = flowdock
pluginsync = true
[agent]
report = true
pluginsync = true
Finally, run the Puppet client and sync the report as a plugin and hey presto you’re logging failures to Flowdock.
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Friday December 23rd, 2011
James & Nigel
So a colleague got this made. I wasn’t sure how to react initially but it’s rather grown on me.
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Sunday December 11th, 2011
Cloudkick and Puppet
We use Cloudkick to provide some backup monitoring for us (we use Nagios internally sigh). I noticed a while back that they had an API and made a note to create a Cloudkick module and write some Puppet integration with their API. That was sometime ago.
Last week I finally got around to hammering something out and after some fighting with the Cloudkick API I’ve written up a module that handles agent installation and node creation (via the API). You can have a look at it here and I’ll pop it on the Forge here.
It’s very easy to use and documented etc. Patches, feedback, etc welcomed.
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