We run Foreman, so I never think of parameterized classes :-)
Another thing we do in some places is concatenated templates, there is a
common section and different appendages.
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:35 AM, myeazel <matthew.yea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Depending on how complex the hosts file needs to be, what LenR may be best
> or I have sometimes also approached this kind of issue by using
> parameterized classes can work well too. You can use a define classname
> ($variables_to_pass_to_template) { } and then you don't have to work with
> ERB-type conditionals. Its a matter of preference in my opinion. So it
> would do something like this:
>
> define location-based-hosts ($my_specific_hosts) {
>
> file { "etc/hosts":
> ensure => present,
> content => template("puppet:///hosts/hosts_template.erb"),
> }
> }
>
> Then call it with:
>
> hosts::location-based-hosts { "us-west":
> my_specific_hosts => "list of the important host entries",
> }
>
> And finally, in the hosts_template.erb:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> <%= my_specific_hosts %>
>
> The syntax should be good but I may have missed something. Again its all
> matter of preference but I have all my templates set up this way, that way
> my templates look as close to the end file as possible and all the "magic"
> happens in my manifests.
>
>
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