Hi, True, however, that is already the case. A host right now is made up of two YAML files. Nevertheless I agree it would be nice to keep all information relevant to a specific node contained in its own YAML.
I could easily create something that would just parse the files and generate DHCPD and DNS files from them without going through Puppet but that defeats the purpose. Plus one'd have to remember to run that code before committing. -- Daniele Sluijters On Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:08:26 UTC+2, Alexander Swen wrote: > > >> I hadn't thought of just separating that information into its own YAML >> file, that's an interesting solution and one I'll definitely be looking >> into to. >> >> But then, information about one host is kept in multiple files and it > would be my aim to wrap all specific info for one host into one yaml. so > that once you remove the host, you only have to remove that file. > That yaml file should keep alle the specific params of that host. and > every other module should be able to take advantage of that information. > This is not only the case for dhcp, but for dns as well. and of course the > /etc/network/interfaces file of the host itself. > > And to avoid needless redundancy of information, certain values should be > written into that file maximum once. so, the ipaddress for example must not > be written in some dns config yaml file as well. and in the hostname.yaml. > Should you decide to change the ipaddress, you definitely forget either the > bind or the dhcp config. > > I realize that this might lead into a feature req for Hiera. > There must simply be a way to tell the dhcp and bind modules to have a > look in all hostname.yaml files to collect all ipaddresses and macaddresses > and hostnames. > > Best regards, > Alex > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/hW_VCzOnl4MJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
