On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Marek Dohojda <chro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Thank you
> Unfortunately this won't help me at the moment because the files are
> different completely and not just few parameters. I need different
> templates based on hostname.
> I am fully aware that I can use "if" but well..ahm.. its ugly :)
>
>
Right,
If you used something like Hiera you could do a lookup on a variable (like
$foo_content for example) and hiera would pass a different value for the
content attribute based on the hostname of the machine. So if it were one
hostname you could get something like
"template('module/first_template.erb')" and another hostname would return a
value of "template('module/second_template.erb')". Then, in the
declaration, you could do:
file { '/path/to/file':
ensure => present,
content => $foo_content,
}
Your Puppet code would be generic (only using a variable) and all your data
would be determined in Hiera. If you're interested in this method, there's
also a blog post for using Hiera here -->
http://puppetlabs.com/blog/first-look-installing-and-using-hiera/
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey Marek,
>>
>> Templates do have different functionality here - they will concatenate
>> arrays of templates (i.e. if you pass more than one template, it
>> concatenates them all together into one file). You might want to check out
>> the blog on separating data from code (
>> http://puppetlabs.com/blog/the-problem-with-separating-data-from-puppet-code/)
>> to see ways that you can specify that piece of data entirely separate from
>> your puppet code.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Marek Dohojda <chro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry if this has been asked, but Google has failed me and I haven't
>>> been able to find an answer.
>>>
>>> With a source one can declare array so that if file exist puppet will
>>> pull it out first, if not move to the next file in this fashion:
>>>
>>> source => ["puppet:///conf/httpd_$hostname.conf",
>>> "puppet:///conf/httpd.conf",
>>> ],
>>>
>>> To the best of my knowledge one can't do that with a Template (at least as
>>> of 0.24, I am hoping this has changed).
>>>
>>> What is the recommended way of dealing with this?
>>>
>>> I do know that I can have an "if" statement within a class/module to go
>>> like this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> if $hostname {
>>> content =...
>>>
>>> However that isn't as clean as being able to do this from within the same
>>> array as "source". That way instead of keep having to add "if/else" I can
>>> simply add a file as needed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>>
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>>
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