Brian Gupta wrote: > We find it frequently useful to be able to set variables from within > puppet to communicate information from one module or class to another, > or to save state across puppet runs. It also makes cloud management and > bootstrapping easier to be able to specify classes/variables from a > command line script being used to spin up nodes. > > Also, going forward, it would be very helpful for the API to be an equal > citizen of the GUI. IE: There shouldn't really be anything that you can > do via the GUI, that you can't do programmatically. This will also allow > for the creation of CLI based tools that can interact with Puppet > Dashboard, which is rather important to us. > > Please let me know if you have any further questions. > >
Brian The API is currently much more fully featured than the GUI. Have you seen Luke and Dan's Puppet-Interfaces work? I think it'll give you most (and perhaps more) of what you want. https://github.com/lak/puppet-interfaces https://github.com/bodepd/puppet-interfaces Regards James -- James Turnbull Puppet Labs 1-503-734-8571 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
