Sounds pretty interesting, specially since I always had store configs running... I'm now able to circle back to this issue and re-focus on automatically generating my /etc/hosts file. So, should the exporting of the necessary values be done in the same class as the collection, or should I just outline it on my default node definition. Here's what I have so far (and it's not working):
class hostsfile { @@host { "$fqdn": ip_address => $ipaddress, tags => "webserver" } Host <<| tag == "webserver" |>> file { "/etc/hosts": ensure => present} } Another thing, how do I ensure that the contents of "file" are what was collected via the "Host" collection? If someone has a similar scenario running, please share your ideas... Thanks, On Jul 12, 12:06 pm, Jeff McCune <j...@reductivelabs.com> wrote: > As Patrick mentions, one solution i recommend is to enable storeconfigs and > have each node export a host entry for itself tagged with the tag you want > other hosts to collect. > > For example, each node may export it's host entry with: > @@host { "$fqdn": ip_address => $ipaddress, tags => "webserver" } > > The cluster may collect these resources to build the hosts file with: > > Host <<|| tag == "webserver" ||>> > > On my phone, so parameter names may not be perfect. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Jeff McCune - (+1-503-208-4484) > > On Jul 12, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Patrick Mohr <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Take a look athttp://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/ > > -- > 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 > athttp://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 > athttp://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.