On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bostjan Skufca <bostjan.sku...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Does anybody know, if resources can be inherited?
>
> Example:
>
> I would like to define three files with owner=root and group=bin and
> mode=754.
> To do that you can write:
> file { "file1":
> owner=root,
> group=bin,
> mode=754,
> }
> file { "file2":
> owner=root,
> group=bin,
> mode=754,
> }
> file { "file3":
> owner=root,
> group=bin,
> mode=754,
> }
>
>
> As you can see there is a bit of redundancy there.
>
You should do this with setting resource defaults in the current scope
instead like:
File { ensure => file, owner => root, group => bin, mode => 0754, }
file { ["file1", "file2", "file3"]: }
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#resource-defaults
> The more elegant way would be something like this (fictive code!):
>
> file_prototype {
> owner=root,
> group=bin,
> mode=754,
> }
> file { "file1": include file_prototype, }
> file { "file2": include file_prototype, }
> file { "file3": include file_prototype, }
>
> Does something similar to code above exists in puppet? Or any
> workaround that does similar trick?
>
> Thank you,
> b.
>
>
> >
>
--
Nigel Kersten
nig...@google.com
System Administrator
Google Inc.
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