On Jan 19, 10:23 pm, Andrew Shafer <and...@reductivelabs.com> wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Using external nodes decouples the definitions of classes and code from the
> hosts that will apply them.
>
> This approach also allows you to introduce arbitrary variables and values
> that will be used by the classes.
>
> External nodes gives you away to connect your hosts and services they
> provide to another data store (db, ldap, etc.) instead of having them all in
> flat files.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:12 PM, James Turnbull
> <ja...@lovedthanlost.net>wrote:
>
>
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> > AJ Christensen wrote:
> > > Woops, forgot this page too:
>
> > >http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ExternalNodes
>
> > > Has an example script which spits out some YAML.
>
> > > Regards,
>
> > Also in my book you can find other examples of a external nodes tools
> > including one using MySQL as a back-end.
>
> > Regards
>
> > James Turnbull
>
> > - --
> > Author of:
> > * Pulling Strings with Puppet
> > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/)
> > * Pro Nagios 2.0
> > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/)
> > * Hardening Linux
> > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/)
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I think I understand ...
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