Why not simply using inheritance? or alternativly, have a source search order? e.g. find the first files it find. in moduleA, modubleB, common
if you really need to manage different parts of the file in different modules, you might want to look for volcane concat module. cheers, Ohad On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:23 AM, John Warburton <jwarbur...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All > > I've done a small scale puppet (130 servers) implementation per the book > and had my files hierarchy under each module: > modules/module1/files > modules/module2/files > modules/module3/files > etc > > This worked fine because we only had a small number of people working on > the project and a small number of files to manage. > > I am now looking at massively upscaling to have puppet run on thousands of > servers, with a global admin staff of about 50, and manage more than 6000 > files (variants and unique instances). > > In a previous life, I've used cfengine with a large file hierarchy spread > over multiple modules and had to manage issues where differing modules > wanted to manage the same file. Identifying the issue, and refactoring > modules took a lot of time and effort - and that was with an admin team of 5 > all in the same office. > > I am thinking that a monolithic module (call it ALL_FILES) that managed all > files and templates will be the way to go, so that it is more visible if a > file is already being managed, given the size and spread of admins: > modules/ALL_FILES/files > > Does anyone have any opinion or experiences they wish to share? > > Thanks > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
