On Aug 22, 9:28 am, Brian Troutwine <br...@troutwine.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM, jcbollinger
> <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote:
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> > On Aug 19, 7:30 pm, Brian Troutwine <br...@troutwine.us> wrote:
> > > Hello, all.
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> > > Let's say I am building a super-weapon robot to destroy the world, save
> > for
> > > the people on a whitelist, and am using puppet to manage the
> > configuration
> > > of this robot.
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> > > $ cat files/do_not_kill.txt
> > > Me
> > > Mom
> > > Dad
> > > Wife
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> > > The robot will only being its rampage when /root/have_a_good_time exists.
> > My
> > > puppet configuration, in part, looks like so:
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> > > file { '/root/have_a_good_time':
> > > ensure => present,
> > > ...
> > > require => File['/root/do_not_kill.txt'],
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> > > }
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> > > file { '/root/do_not_kill.txt':
> > > ensure => present,
> > > ...
> > > source => "puppet:///files/donut_kill.txt",
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> > > }
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> > > Those with sharp eyes will note that the inclusion of the whitelist will
> > > fail miserably: the source is wrong. But then,
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> > > # puppet agent --test
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> > > Uh oh. The enabler of the killer robot will be put into place because,
> > > despite the error, execution continued and we're all dead, me especially.
> > > How do I signal that I want to break execution on errors or, at least,
> > not
> > > continue on with the sub-tree of actions which the erroring resource is
> > the
> > > root of?
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> > You left out the "MUWAHAHAAHHH!!!" Did you perhaps also leave out the
> > output from 'puppet agent'?
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> > The behavior you request is what Puppet normally provides: if applying
> > a resource fails then other resources that depend on it do not get
> > applied. How about posting the output from 'puppet agent --test --
> > debug' with your manifest? Also, make sure that the agent is actually
> > getting the catalog with those resources.
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> How do I ensure this last bit?
The last catalog received from the server is cached on the client in
YAML form. Look on the client in /var/lib/puppet. It is fairly
readable for simple manifests, but you would probably want a YAML
browser for complex ones.
John
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