Thanks! Stefans suggestion seemed elegant and productive, and proved to be so.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Stefan Schulte
<stefan.schu...@taunusstein.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:53:11AM -0800, bowlby wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm figuring out a way to build a ssh-gateway. For that to work I want
>> access to the internal ipaddresses that are used by my slaves (which
>> get assigned by dhcp and thus are not predictable). This way I can
>> change the host-file on my ssh-gateway so that hostnames point to the
>> right nodes.
>>
>> So I want something like:
>>
>> SSH-gateway-hostfile:
>> 192.168.1.12 hostname1
>> 192.168.1.67 hostname2
>>
>> Is there a way to access facts on from nodes other than the node
>> you're working on?
>>
>
> Have a look at exported resources [1]. All your nodes that need an entry
> can export a resource
>
> @@host { $fqdn:
> ip => $ipaddress,
> host_aliases => $hostname,
> ensure => present,
> target => '/ssh_gateway_hostfile',
> tag => 'ssh-gateway',
> }
>
> And on your gateway you'll do
>
> Host <<| tag == 'ssh-gateway' |>>
>
> You have to enable stored configuration for that [2]. Then you run
> puppet agent on all your slave nodes and after that on your ssh gateway.
>
> [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Exported_Resources
> [2] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Using_Stored_Configuration
>
> -Stefan
>
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