On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, James Turnbull <ja...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> 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 > We'll definably check it out. I'm wondering right now who's version we should start testing, and where we install it? Also does it interface directly with dashboard, or is everything proxied through the puppetmaster? -- > James Turnbull > Puppet Labs > 1-503-734-8571 > > -- <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/> -- 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.
