[nycbug-talk] How do you bootstrap puppet?

[Matt Juszczak]

Hi folks,

I'm launching a puppet setup from scratch.  Historically, I've simply 
setup /etc/puppet/manifests|modules on the puppetmaster and launched the 
puppetmaster and puppet processes and let puppet configure itself to get 
the master up and running.

However, I'm now using external nodes via LDAP as well as MySQL for stored 
configs.  So before puppetmaster can be "fully operational", I need MySQL 
and openldap installed and up and running as well. So I'm wondering how I 
setup the LDAP portion of the server:

* Should I just do that manually?

* Should I create a node.pp with just my puppet master and nothing else 
and enable external nodes after the puppet master has been puppetized?

* Should I write a bootstrap.sh script that installs MySQL, OpenLDAP, and 
puppet master, gets them up and running with their appropriate 
configurations, checks out the puppet repository from SVN, and then signs 
the local certificate to continue configuration of the local box?

Any thoughts would be appreciated - thanks!

-Matt