>>> As the number of servers I am using puppet on is increasing, I'm wondering >>> what the best practices is for the nodes. Currently they all sit in the one >>> file /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp. >>> >>> What I'm wondering is whether this is the best way to go (that is, one >>> large file) or is it better to split the nodes into individual files or >>> some other logical segregation? >> Using external is quite mandatory when things grow. See >> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ExternalNodes for more >> informations. > > I REALLY disagree with this. How do you version control your nodes if > they are stored externally?
with a version control? for example if you have a little rails app for your node setup with acts_as_versionable on your model. Or if you do it with ldap: how do you do version controle in ldap if you have things for your infrastructure there? A very straightforward way would be to dump the ldap-data regularly (after a change?) and version that one. Well either you stick with plain text files you can version control as you are used to. But this can get very messy very fast. Or you use something else for a source for your external nodes. For example some kind of central inventory system your company strategy leader xy senior manager has bought... ;) There are so many ways people can be forced to get their node information from, it can't be up to puppet to care about versioning of all these issues. Anyway if somebodies xy super inventory product is so critical for their infrastructure it should provide some kind of versioning, shouldn't it? cheers pete --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
