On 22 Jul 2011, at 22:14, Michael Knox wrote:
> On 22/07/11 12:57 AM, John Hawkes-Reed wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> As part of our Puppet rig, we manage a number of zonefiles with NSD. This
>> means that there's a directory of datafiles under
>> ../puppet/modules/nsd/files/zones/ (and something somewhat similar for the
>> Postfix virtual domains).
>>
>> It seems to me that mixing code and data like that might be a bad idea, and
>> was wondering if anyone else had a better one.
>>
> Hi,
> Data can be sourced from VCS repos, rather than your Puppet
> manifests/modules in at least 2 ways.
>
> 1. directory structures such as DNS zones file, or apps that are housed
> in VCS repos are managed through the vcsrepo type [1]
> 2. For an individual files content, we currently have something like:
> file{'/blah':
> inline_template("<%= `/usr/bin/svn cat http://repo.domain/somefile`
> %>"),
> }
> This should be moved into a function with some code to manage failure
> conditions such as being unable to contact the repository to ensure that
> such a failure doesn't cause corruption.
>
> [1] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/vcsrepo
Coo. That's rather neat. I shall go and have a play - thanks for the pointer.
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