On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Bruce Richardson <itsbr...@workshy.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:31:26PM +0100, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
> > > I have two sites with a small number of machines at each.  Each site is
> > > functionally identical.  I would like to set up a bunch of templates
> > > for the various services at each site, with a handful of variables that
> > > indicate which site the service is configured for.  What would be
> > > "best practice" way to accomplish this in Puppet ?
> >
> >
> > You should consider using extlookup.
> >
> > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/2.6.1/function.html#extlookup
>
> Why?  It seems odd to be stepping outside the puppet DSL for something
> so basic.


The same could be said for puppet's awful variable scoping. Should be
simple, but it's not. I'd be dead without extlookup.

Doug.

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