Cleanfb

Cleanfb is a tool that cleans a filebucket on a Puppet server by backing up files to a saved directory. This tool is intended to be used alongside a Ruby script, capture_config, that captures the configuration of a machine and checks it against copies sent to a Puppet server.

If a configuration is removed from the Puppet node, a new copy is automatically retrieved from the Puppet server's filebucket.

Cleanfb allows out of date configurations to be backed up on the server and for the Puppet node to capture a current configuration. Old configurations can also be restored using cleanfb.

Installation

$ gem install cleanfb

Usage

cleanfb [options]

Backup all files associated with the host on the server's filebucket.
-f, --force        | answer yes to all
-h, --help         | show help message
-n, --name=NAME    | the hostname to backup
-r, --restore=NAME | the file to restore

Updating Configuration

Clean the configuration for a host

$ cleanfb --name=hostname -f

The configuration is now backed up on the server at /root/saved_configs/hostname/date_time_hostname_configuration.json A new configuration will be obtained for the host on the next Puppet run.

Restoring a previous Configuration

To restore a previous saved configuration issue the following command

$ cleanfb restore --restore=/root/saved_configs/hostname/date_time_host_configuration.json

The current configuration gets backed up and the selected configuration is restored as the primary configuration. The restored configuration will be obtained by the host from the server on the next Puppet run.