Hi, Thanks for the reply Richard,
I will try this and share the details! -Kaustubh On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:13:13 PM UTC-5, Richard Berwald wrote: > > I recently faced the same challenge. I did not want to group by osfamily > but by another fact. > I came up with this solution: > 1) retrieve a list from PuppetDB in format 'nodename:factvalue' for all > nodes using puppetdbquery on a puppetmaster (sudo puppet query facts > --facts=<factname> "<some query that resolved to true>") > 2) retrieve the group list from the console with 'rake nodegroup:list' > 3) Compare the existing groups with the groups based upon the values from > the fact and create missing groups with 'nodegroup:add[groupname] > 4) For each (already) existing group, get all members of the group with > 'nodegroup:group_list[groupname]' > 5) Compare the nodenames that are already in the group with the list of > nodenames from PuppetDB, and add missing nodes of a group with > node:group[nodename,<standardgroup>:<groupname>] > > I came to this solution because rake calls felt relatively slow (about 7 > seconds per call) on our platform and I wanted it to be able to potentially > scale to thousands of nodes. > This runs once a night from an old fashioned cron. > > Richard > > > On Monday, January 27, 2014 3:16:09 PM UTC+1, kaustubh chaudhari wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I was looking for a way to group the servers dynamically. Eg: create a >> "Windows" Group and all the existing nodes and new nodes should be part of >> "Windows" group. >> I edit a group and then add each server, but practically its not possible >> with 2k servers in all!! >> >> Is there a way to do that? >> >> -Kaustubh >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/e584314b-c88c-4dea-a55a-9c2f9eedbde0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
