Debugging Elusive Puppet Errors

By Stuart Colville in Debugging on

On working on some puppet manifests I hit this error message: $ sudo puppetd -t err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass warning: Not using cache on failed catalog err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run Certainly not the most enlightening error message.…

Puppet: Server Configuration Made Easy

By Stuart Colville in puppet on

I've been working on a few collaborative side-projects in my spare time which has ended up requiring several servers provisioned by a couple of different providers. The majority of them are Slicehost VMs but we also use Bytemark as a way of distributing risk for the unlikely event that the…