Thanks John for your very interesting reply.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 4:13:03 PM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:04:46 AM UTC-6, Bruno Leon wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> since Puppet 3 hiera is doing auto variable lookup for classes, which in
>> my
>> view makes the code much clearer simply because we can use
>> include foo
>> instead of
>> class { 'foo':
>> param1 => value,
>> param2 => value,
>> }
>>
>
>
> There are other advantages to using 'include', too, so bravo!
>
>
>>
>> However, AFAIK there is no such feature as auto looking parameters for
>> defined
>> type.
>> A common case is multiple vhost in Apache.
>>
>
>
> You already started answering your own question when you wrote
> "multiple". For a similar feature to work for defined types, it has to be
> able to identify keys to use to lookup parameters for a given instance,
> preferably without risk of colliding with classes or other defined-type
> instances.
>
Actually the point was that the first key would be the defined type, which
then has a "subkey" for each instance.
There is a risk of collision between defined type and class names, but that
is already the case within Puppet language anyway.
>
>
>>
>> Even though you can have apache installed as simply as "include apache",
>> you
>> still have a lot of define (one per vhost), possibly each with different
>> parameters.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have hiera looking up for a hash of parameters.
>>
>> Something like this in hiera:
>>
>> ---
>> apache_vhost:
>> website1:
>> web_param1: 'foo'
>> web_param2: 'bar'
>> website2:
>> web_param1: 'another_foor'
>> web_param2: 'another_bar'
>>
>> And in the manifest, this would be invoked as simply as:
>>
>> node "test" {
>> include apache
>> apache_vhost { 'website1': }
>> apache_vhost { 'website2': }
>> }
>>
>> Any ideas on this ? Any plans of implementation ?
>>
>
>
> You can do something very like what you describe via the built-in
> create_resources() function. Given the data exactly as you structured it
> in your example, you could do this:
>
> # load the vhost data as a hash of hashes
> $vhost_data = hiera('apache_vhost')
>
> # declare the apache_vhost instances
> create_resources('apache_vhost', $vhost_data)
>
> # (that's it)
>
> See
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.0.0/function.html#createresourcesfor
> more information.
>
This sound quite perfect for me, I'll give it a try !
Bruno
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