This sounds like a fine solution. I won't have many, and easy enough to encapsulate the data access in a shell script, and it sounds like I can call generate directly from my template where I need the dynamic values.
I may be getting greedy, but if a value doesn't change between runs, will Puppet be smart enough to know the file doesn't need to be updated on the client? On Jan 7, 10:57 am, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > 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 -- 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.
