On Aug 3, 2011, at 2:46 PM, jcbollinger wrote: > On Aug 3, 11:50 am, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: >> On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:33 AM, jcbollinger wrote: >> >>> Environments don't get as much discussion around here nowadays as they >>> used to get, and I suppose that's because run stages have stolen some >>> of their thunder. Nevertheless, there are scenarios for which >>> environments are better suited than is any other Puppet feature, and >>> some of those are in the area of initial provisioning. >> >> ---- >> I've sort of been scratching at that post but unable to find the proper >> technique to solve my itch. >> >> Obviously can set something like 'environment = staging' in >> /etc/puppet/puppet.conf on the master >> >> and then it will pick it up but when changing it with an External Nodes >> Classifier (in my case, foreman), and using an erb template for the clients' >> puppet.conf which has environment = <%= environment %> - one would think >> that this would change but it doesn't >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3910 >> >> so I believe there is some limbo here > > > I think you're saying that the variable 'environment' is not working > for this purpose. I'm not very surprised. Not only is there some > ambiguity surrounding whether it should or does represent the client's > requested environment or the server's imposed environment, but more > importantly, *neither* of those is what you actually want: the > environment the client should use *next time*. Your ENC or an > appropriate class should set that value in a different variable (e.g. > targetEnvironment, nextEnvironment, ...), and your template should use > that. ---- sure - that's what Ohad suggested and it's somewhat workable. The issue really is that this is a hack workaround. For example, the interface for configuring the environment in foreman allows you to select it but it doesn't change a thing on the client. So there's a disconnect when you define the environment in an ENC - the client simply ignores it.
I would find a 'next time' implementation to be perfect and much better than the deafness that it currently has. Craig -- 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.
