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> From: "jcbollinger" <john.bollin...@stjude.org>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 3:25:34 PM
> Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Profiles, Hiera, and
> create_resources('class','...')
>
>
>
> On Friday, January 11, 2013 2:14:46 PM UTC-6, Eric Sakowski wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've recently started exploring the role / profile / component module
> > described by Craig Dunn in his blog here:
> > http://www.craigdunn.org/2012/05/239/ and discussed on the list the other
> > day. As I was implementing this for
> > a profile using the apache module, I realized that I could make another
> > refinement to our approach by using
> > create_resources('class','<module name>') to pull our hiera data into the
> > apache class and override any defaults needed.
> > It looks good to me but there are some concerns that it will come back and
> > bite us in ways we don't expect
> > later on, when updating to Puppet 3.0.
>
>
> Good news: it's unlikely that this will bite you later on.
> Bad news: that's because it will bite you now.
>
> Classes are not resources, and the create_resources() function does not
> work with them.
>
sure it does - just like any other resources.
class x($msg) { notify{$msg: } }
create_resources("class", {"x" => {"msg" => "hello world"}})
will produce:
Notice: hello world
Notice: /Stage[main]/X/Notify[hello world]/message: defined 'message' as
'hello world'
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