On Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:24:19 AM UTC-6, Gary Larizza wrote:
>
>
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Alexander Swen wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> in the logs of our 2.7.10 puppet master we find messages like these:
>> Dynamic lookup of $functie at /etc/puppet/manifests/server_classes.pp:52
>> is deprecated. Support will be removed in Puppet 2.8. Use a fully-qualified
>> variable name (e.g., $classname::variable) or parameterized classes.
>>
>> However, I'm a bit worried that a key functionality will be removed in
>> 2.8: we set a param/value in every node telling the node what it's funtion
>> is and use that in a variety of manifests to decide how to configure the
>> server.
>>
>> we use something like:
>> node servera {
>> $function = 'webserver'
>> include function_dependent_services
>> }
>> node serverb {
>> $function = 'dbserver'
>> include function_dependent_services
>> }
>>
>> class function_dependent_services {
>> include iptables
>> include motd
>> }
>>
>> class iptables {
>> file {
>> "/etc/iptables/cfg-firewall":
>> content => template("iptables/cfg-firewall.erb");
>> }
>> }
>>
>> and then, somewhere in the erb we evaluate <%= function %>
>>
>> will this be broken in 2.8?
>> and, if yes: how should we tell the erb the param that changes for a lot
>> of nodes?
>>
>> or should I file this as a bug for v2.8?
>>
>> please help us out, thanks in advance
>> Alex
>
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> We have a page on our website that should help you out with this -->
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/scope_and_puppet.html Have you seen
> that yet? That's a great place to start. You have parameterized classes
> that can help you out, as well as data lookup methods like Hiera (
> http://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera) that are also available.
>
>
Alex, how did you end up solving this? Please post back to the list. I have
exactly the same problem with my upgrade to puppet 2.7. I have variables
defined in my nodes that are used in my templates and want to do this
correctly so that the upgrade to puppet 2.8 works.
Thanks.
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