Hello, > I can find no good way in puppet to create these sorts of > hierarchies.
I use a parser function that reads data from a CSV, you can make it read from a database or whatever. http://nephilim.ml.org/~rip/puppet/extlookup.rb Using this you can model all sorts of complex data structures and provide many levels of overrides. something as simple as: $ntp_master = extlookup("ntp_master") could allow for setting a specific value per host, per domains, per country, per vlan or any variable/fact combination available in your manifests and allow for setting sane defaults - or just produce parser errors if no data is available. > > If I defined base nodes and try to inherit values- puppet is > declarative so later values do not get imported. > > If I define classes for global, then site, then system and try to do > something like: > > node ntpserver { > $ntp_master = "accurate.example.com" > include site::nyresearch > include site::global > } > > None of the values set in nyresearch will be available to classes in > global because of scoping rules. > > How are folks making this work? Have I completely missed a totally > awesome feature or language keyword somewhere along the line? Are > there fun tricks with inheritance that I am missing? > > Explanations or links to good docs would be greatly appreciate. > > If I'm trying to go about this all wrong and someone can explain the > error of my ways, that too would be appreciated. > > -Don > -- R.I.Pienaar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
