Hi Andrew,
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:33 AM, hudsterboy <andrewmor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a directory structure from 2 arrays. First array
> is the "outter", second is the "inner". For each "outter", I'd like to
> loop through each "inner".
>
> Below is sort of what I'm trying to do. In the real world, the
> $sys_name and $mounts vars will be parsed from yaml and will be
> dynamic. In the example I've created static arrays for simplicity.
>
> Please don't critique the code. I know it won't work and is the wrong
> way to do it. I just want to give an idea of what I'm trying to do.
>
> $sys_name = ['sys1', 'sys2', 'sys3', 'sys4']
> $mounts = ['home', 'var', 'usr', 'duck', 'goose']
>
> File { owner => 'root', group => 'root', mode => '0755', ensure =>
> directory }
>
> define outter () {
> file { "/mnt/$sys_name": }
>
> define inner () {
> file {"$mount_base/$mounts":}
> }
> inner { $mounts }
>
> }
> outter { $sys_name: }
>
Looping/iteration is somewhat difficult using Puppet's DSL.
Perhaps you should consider writing this manifest using the new Ruby DSL
(available in 2.6.x) . I recently wrote a blog about it (which I believe is
the most up to date documentation not counting the commit message):
http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/ruby-dsl/
its fairly bleeding edge, so feel free to ask questions.
-Dan
> So basically create directories from a dynamic array inside
> directories created from a dynamic array.
> Any way to do this in a simple way?
>
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