Take a look at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/exported_resources.html. I
think this will give you what you want. It will only work if you turn on
storeconfigs.
On Jul 12, 2010, at 5:43 AM, CraftyTech wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Jeff. Interesting feature that I had
> unfortunately overlooked until now, but the basic question still
> remains; how would I then generate specific hostfiles based on nodes
> of the same tag? For instance, a web server to only have host entries
> for items tagged webserver only, and not one large on-size-fits-all
> file. Thanks,
>
> On Jul 2, 9:39 pm, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:40 AM, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction here. I'm trying to
>>> create an erb template for my /etc/hosts file, so that when executed,
>>> it populates the /etc/hosts file only with entries that are tag
>>> relevant. For instance, if a server is tagged apache, only the apache
>>> tagged entries would be populated into the /etc/hosts file. Thanks in
>>> advance for you help.
>>
>> I recommend using the built in host type to model and manage entries
>> in /etc/hosts rather than a template.
>>
>> Modeling your configuration using a type rather than a file will allow
>> you to declare the resources as virtual, then simply realize them if
>> they're tagged with the tag you care about. In addition, you'll
>> receive a bunch of additional features "for free" like the
>> relationship graph, meta-parameters, reporting, etc...
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> class apache {
>> @host { "zaphod": ip => "1.2.3.4" }
>>
>> }
>>
>> # Realize host entries tagged with "apache"
>> Host <| tag == "apache" |>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff McCunehttp://www.puppetlabs.com/
>
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