you can use external nodes to do that, see
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html
just using a script to generate the nodes' info.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Nikhil Mulley <mnik...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In my puppet configuration, to deploy certain files to group of nodes,
> everytime either a new class of node is being used or the node class has to
> typically extended to many other machines and is likely more typing. The
> more typing can generally result in anomalies/errors in hosts.
>
> For example:
>
> node x1.y.z x2.y.z x3.y.z x4.y.z{
> ...
> ...
> }
>
> What I am trying to formulate this into is use the netgroup information
> available from /etc/netgroup and get this grouped as
>
> node @xN-y-z-hosts {
> ...
> ...
> }
>
> or
>
>
> nodegroup @xN-y-z-hosts {
> ...
> ...
> }
>
> What are the things that would possibly require the changes to?
>
> Thanks,
> Nikhil
>
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