(Wow, hi Luke! LTNT!)
The standard way to do that is:
source =>
["puppet:///foo/file-$hostname","puppet:///foo/file-$lsbdistcodename","puppet:///foo/file"]
- check for modules/foo/file-www4, then file-jaunty, then file
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Luke Schierer <luke.schie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking at migrating a set of servers from cfengine management to
> puppet management. For the most part, the move has been relatively straight
> forward, and I am pleased with the way that puppet's modules have made some
> of the things I did in cfengine2 much cleaner. There is one thing though
> that was relatively easy in cfengine that I am not seeing a good way to
> achieve with puppet.
>
> In cfengine I defined a variable serverlist that was essentially an array of
> hostnames. I then had the following copy block
>
> copy:
> somehost::
> /path/to/file/that/updates/nightly
> server=${serverlist}
> dest=/var/www/repository/${this}
> mode=644 owner=apache group=wheel
>
> which caused the one host in the class somehost to copy the file from each
> server in the array serverlist to the repository.
>
> The closest I see in puppet would be to list each server source as a
> different file entry in a class.
>
> Something like (psuedo code)
>
> class pullfile {
> File { ensure => file, owner => apache, group => wheel, mode => 644, }
> file {
> host1: source => "puppet://host1/path/to/file" path =>
> "/var/www/repository/host1";
> host2: source => "puppet://host2/path/to/file" path =>
> "/var/www/repository/host2";
> }
> }
>
> and have puppetmaster on each host.
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Luke
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