On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, windowsrefund <windowsref...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 6, 10:25 am, Jeff Sussna <j...@ingineering.it> wrote:
> > (How) do folks handle situations where puppet variables need to be
> > populated from dynamic database queries?
>
> Most folks do not. However, some have spawned a framework called
> hiera. By default, hiera uses a yaml backend but it can certainly be
> extended to query a database. In fact, I believe a mongo backend is
> out there somewhere.
>
> Of course, if you wanted, you could even write a custom function for
> the job. Hiera is probably a cleaner direction though.
>
>
Another option is to use the generate() function on your master if you've
already got a shell/executable script that can get the data for you.

If you've got lots of these, it's probably not the best approach, but it's
a lower barrier to entry if you're only doing one or two.



-- 
Nigel Kersten
Product Manager, Puppet Labs

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