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diff --git a/wiki/devops/puppet-2.7-to-3.1.md b/wiki/devops/puppet-2.7-to-3.1.md deleted file mode 100644 index aaaf302..0000000 --- a/wiki/devops/puppet-2.7-to-3.1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -# Notes on upgrading Puppet from 2.7 to 3.1 - -## Bad - -* As usual, you have to upgrade the puppet master first. 2.7 agents can speak - to 3.1 masters just fine, but 3.1 agents cannot speak to 2.7 masters. - -* I tried to upgrade the Puppet master using both `puppet agent` (failed when - package upgrades shut down the puppet master) and `puppet apply` (failed for - Ubuntu-specific reasons outlined below) - -* [This bug](https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19308). - -* You more or less can't upgrade Puppet using Puppet. - -## Good - -* My 2.7 manifests worked perfectly under 3.1. - -* Puppet's CA and SSL certs survived intact and required no maintenance after - the upgrade. - -* The Hiera integration into class parameters works as advertised and really - does help a lot. - -* Once I figured out how to execute it, the upgrade was pretty smooth. - -* No Ruby upgrade! - -* Testing the upgrade in a VM sandbox meant being able to fuck up safely. - [Vagrant](http://www.vagrantup.com) is super awesome. - -## Package Management Sucks - -Asking Puppet to upgrade Puppet went wrong on Ubuntu because of the way Puppet -is packaged: there are three (ish) Puppet packages, and Puppet's resource -evaluation bits try to upgrade and install one package at a time. Upgrading -only “puppetmaster” upgraded “puppet-common” but not “puppet,” causing Apt to -remove “puppet”; upgrading only “puppet” similarly upgraded “puppet-copmmon” -but not “puppetmaster,” causing Apt to remove “puppetmaster.” - -The Puppet aptitude provider (which I use instead of apt-get) for Package -resources also doesn't know how to tell aptitude what to do with config files -during upgrades. This prevented Puppet from being able to upgrade pacakges -even when running standalone (via `puppet apply`). - -Finally, something about the switchover from Canonical's Puppet .debs to -Puppetlabs' .debs caused aptitude to consider all three packages “broken” -after a manual upgrade ('aptitude upgrade puppet puppetmaster'). Upgrading the -packages a second time corrected it; this is the path I eventually took with -my production puppetmaster and nodes. |
