On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote: > On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > >> Anyone know if there's a plan to allow definitions to be used in >> external nodes? Not having that ability is a major pain in the ass. It >> really means that all that really works with external nodes is really >> simple cases of a single piece of software being installed and >> configured, like apache for example. > > I've used external nodes all along and never found this to be a limitation. > Classes can do much much more than one thing, so I'm not sure what you mean. > > External nodes can have classes and variables. Classes can call definitions. > Facts and variables can be passed to those definitions. > > What additional functionality would you get?
I mean that you need to create a new class for each customer you add. That does not scale. 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.
