On May 19, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Peter Meier wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>> but attempting to jerry-rig the same behavior by reading in an
>> arbitrary file on the puppetmaster system will not work (without my
>> kluge approach). So, I guess barring a change in puppet to only fetch
>> function results when that resource is actually to be created (versus
>> when it is to be parsed), there's no alternative.
>
> if you're fine with creating the keys on the master you could write a
> function which provides you the content.
>
> Functions are always evaluated on the master only. The function could
> even create the ssh keys if they're not yet on the master.
As Peter indicates, you need to see the separation between client and
server - you want to create the keys on the server and then read them
in, both of which should use functions, not resources.
Then you feed the keys to a resource, which knows how to deploy them
on the client.
--
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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