It depends on the job you want to do. My project we use an oracle db backend to store our whole environment information for application deployments. So we have a ruby DSL class that is an entry point where it looks up the node in the database and processes it depending on its function.
The solution depends on how complex you need it to be. On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: > I asked this question a few weeks ago. Didn't get a reply, so I > thought I'd try again. > > Where are people more likely to source external node data from? > > a) By using extlookup, hiera etc within each puppet module to load > data specific to that module, OR > b) Having the external node script source everything at once from, say > a database, and then dump all the variables that the node will ever > need. > > ? > > Doug. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
