On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 5:10:56 AM UTC-5, Andreas Dvorak wrote: > > Thank you very much John, to explain that. > My module is working now. > > But what I tried was to have a list of user outside of the module. I would > like to seperate the values of the user from the module. Have you got a > hint to do that for me? > > What prevents you from doing that?
If you are specifically talking about the admin users class, which I suggested putting into the 'user' module, then you can instead put it in some other module, or else just get rid of it and put its contents into one or more node blocks. The point of using a class is to facilitate re-use and/or multiple points of use. I had supposed you wanted one or both of those because of the way you were trying to use 'import', but if you don't need either then you don't need a class. Also, Puppet provides no name hiding, so you can refer to any class, definition, or variable anywhere via its qualified name (e.g. "user::adduser"). For variables only, the variable declaration must already have been parsed. Module boundaries present no barrier here. More generally, there are several ways you could record data specific to your site's nodes, and communicate it to Puppet to inform catalog compilation. They fall into two general categories: 1. Encode the data into your Puppet manifests. There are several variations on this theme, varying from simply including the data directly in declarations (your present approach) to declaring literal data structures in variables that your classes and definitions can process. 2. Load your data from an external source. There are innumerable ways to do this, but in practice, the best place for you to start if you want to go this route would be Hiera. Generally, this route proceeds via loading the external data into one or more Puppet variables, which your classes and definitions thereafter process. I should say that if you were using an external node classifier (ENC) then you could rely on that to feed some or all of the needed data to Puppet by setting global variables. I would put that in category 2, but others might categorize it differently. I apologize if that's more information than you wanted, or if it's not specific enough. If you want better targeted advice then I need to understand the problem better. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
