node classification seems essential to growing out my puppet
infrastructure and to do some neat things with it.
Can someone post a very simple example of how I can leverage external
node classification in my scenario? If this warrants another thread,
please let me know.
Thanks everyone.
On Feb 11, 6:58 pm, Tony C <tonyjch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the assistance. I checked out Hiera and to be honest, that
> is really way out of my league right now. When I get there, I will
> definitely be looking into it, because I know I will get there soon,
> unless you want to give me the 5 minutes selling pitch?
> =)
>
> I have been reading the style guide and the best practices pages and
> came up with this model: (using CONFIG in caps to represent it as my
> base module)
>
> Since I have to manage 40 files all with different values, I just
> created a subclass called
> CONFIG::show1_prod_LA. In the show1_prod_LA.pp file, I created all my
> specific key=value pairs, and then I included config.
>
> in the CONFIG init.pp i have:
>
> file { "/tmp/${app}_${site}_${env}.properites":
> ensure => present,
> content => template("mymodule/
> template.properties.erb"),
>
> So basically I am reusing the same class CONFIG but having each
> subclass over write the values. This worked for the first subclass. I
> tried creating a second subclass, called CONFIG:show1_prod_NY. This
> subclass has the same keys, but obviously different values.
>
> In my site.pp I have this:
>
> node mydesktop{
> include CONFIG::show1_prod_LA:
> include CONFIG::show1_prod_NY
>
> }
>
> My problem is, only the first include "include
> CONFIG::show1_prod_LA:" runs. Am I completely using puppet in a way
> I'm not supposed to?
>
> On Feb 11, 5:48 pm, Eric Shamow <e...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I would avoid this approach - global variables aren't a good idea.
>
> > Hiera would be a better approach:
>
> >http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/05/hiera_a_pluggable_hierarchic...
>
> > -Eric
>
> > --
>
> > Eric Shamow
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> > (c)631.871.6441
>
> > On Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, krish wrote:
> > > > My scenario is this: I have 4 environments, Dev, Test, QA, Prod. Each
> > > > of these environments lives in 2 sites, LA and NY. I have 5
> > > > applications that are site and env specific.
>
> > > > I want to use puppet to template-ize the config files that is required
> > > > for each env, per site, per app, so 40 files.
>
> > > > The config file is basically key=value pairs. Here's a simple example
> > > > of what each file may look like:
>
> > > > site=LA
> > > > env=Dev
> > > > app=App1
> > > > masterServer=host1
> > > > clientServer1=host2
> > > > clientServer2=host3
>
> > > How about having these key value pairs in site.pp with a case environment
> > > Then they become global to all modules.
>
> > > --
> > > Krish
> > > olindata.com (http://olindata.com)
>
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