On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:57 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Sep 21, 6:34 pm, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Douglas Garstang >> >> <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > All, >> >> > I have a situation where I need to get some fairly complex >> > configuration files onto systems, and I'm wondering if puppet can even >> > do this. Lets say that my external node script will go and source all >> > the data it needs from an external database, and dump out all >> > variables that the node will need. The relevant puppet module(s) will >> > then have to inject these variables into templates to be deployed to >> > the systems. >> >> Can you provide an example of a chunk of actual data and the desired >> end result to see if there's a better alternative Doug? > > > I second that request. The scenario presented is more a design > concept than a problem description. Although I am confident that > Puppet indeed can handle the scenario as presented, it may be that > there are alternative designs that would accomplish the same objective > in a simpler way.
Well, speaking somewhat generically still, we have an application that will need to run multiple times on a single system, and each instance of that running application will have it's own config file, each with a variable number of items (they're disk volumes). If the external node script returned YAML data like this: appX_inst1_vol1_name: vol1 appX_inst1_vol1_size: 1G appX_inst1_vol1_active: true appX_inst2_vol1_name: vol2 appX_inst2_vol1_size: 2G appX_inst2_vol1_active: false ... and so on. All the volumes for inst1 need to go into one config file, all the volumes for inst2 in another config file and so on. I don't see a way that puppet can iterate over a variable number of items and split the data into multiple files. Doug. $vol_host1_inst1_ \ -- 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.
