On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Atha Kouroussis <akourous...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 21, 2010, at 02:16 , Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Paul Lathrop <p...@tertiusfamily.net> >> wrote: >>> If you don't see a use, don't use the feature. However, when you have >>> an issue and people suggest external nodes is the answer, you might >>> consider listening. >> >> Paul, I initially asked about a way to parse nodes files such that I >> could update them programatically. Various people suggested external >> nodes. And, here we are. >> >> Thanks for your reply. I am listening, but I missed where you >> suggested a solution to my question. Therefore, I will pose it again. >> How do I set parameters in external nodes such that I don't have to >> pass a plethora of qualified global variables to my modules? > > Douglas, > we use Foreman as our external node classifier. It allows you to set > variables at different levels: global, domain, hostgroup and host, each > taking precedence the previous one. This way you can set global defaults and > override them at different levels until you set specific variables for a host > for example and variables can have the same names always. > Is this what you were looking for?
Atha, don't want to use hundreds of global variables. Yuck. Doug. -- 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.
