On Thursday, March 6, 2014 10:17:00 AM UTC-8, bluethundr wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have a module that I've written called 'lumberjack'. It installs the
> logstash forwarding agent called 'lumberjack' and gets the service running.
> However it depends on ca certificate which I include in another class
> (called simply 'ca').
>
> Yet if I try to include a resource from the 'ca' class I get the following
> failure:
>
> err: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find dependency
> File[/etc/pki/CA/certs/ca.crt] for Service[lumberjack] at
> /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/lumberjack/manifests/service.pp:8
>
> I really did think that if I included a class into another one like so:
>
> class lumberjack::service {
>
> include ca
>
> service { lumberjack:
> ensure => running,
> require => File["/etc/pki/CA/certs/ca.crt"],
> }
>
>
> }
>
> I'd be able to refer to the resource from the other class. I think we had
> a debate about the rightness or wrongness of including material from other
> classes in our resources. So I'm just wondering what the best way of going
> about what I'm trying to achieve might be.
>
> The goal here will be to install the lumberjack log shipping agent and get
> the service running in one fell swoop. If I remove the cert requirement
> (require => File["/etc/pki/CA/certs/ca.crt"],) the puppet run will error
> out initially when it tries to run the service and can't find the ca.crt
> file. The second run will generally be ok.
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>
> --
> GPG me!!
>
> gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
>
Hi,
You could change 'include ca' to 'require ca' and then safely remove the
require attribute from the service resource. This would ensure that all of
the resources from the ca class are handled before your service class.
Best regards,
-g
--
Garrett Honeycutt
LearnPuppet.com
@learnpuppet
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