That's a fair point, but not applicable to my use-case (multiple puppet
servers).
However, at some point in the near future, I'll be using hiera, and that
will be moot.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Chad Huneycutt <chad.huneyc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Zachary Alex Stern
> <z...@enternewmedia.com> wrote:
> >
> > FWIW, this works:
> >
> > class puppet::config {
> >
> > include puppet::params
> > $puppetserver=$puppet::params::puppetserver
> > $runinterval=$puppet::params::runinterval
> > file { '/etc/puppet/puppet.conf':
> > ensure => present,
> > content => template('puppet/puppet.conf.erb'),
> > require => Class['puppet::install'],
> > notify => Class['puppet::service'],
> > }
> > }
>
> So what if you would like to use a different puppet server? You have
> to go in to the module and change the params.pp file? The code Nan
> suggested allows you to override the value if necessary at the point
> of inclusion, but fall back to a sane default specified in params.pp.
> Personally, I am loving hiera, which provides even more flexibility:
>
> class foo ( $bar = hiera('bar') ) {
> ...
> }
>
> And then $bar can be defined in a module-local class (if using puppet
> hiera backend), module-local yaml file, site-specific yaml file,
> overridden when included, etc, all according to a policy that you
> define.
>
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