Hello Henrik , Thanks for your reply , i was also thinking to create a type and provider using existing parser functionality puppet has . Even thanks for sharing those links , it was helpful.
Regards, Ritesh Nanda On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Henrik Lindberg < henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com> wrote: > On 2014-08-05 19:36, Ritesh Nanda wrote: > >> Thanks Henrik , >> >> I would like to find a file and parse it , so that would be on the >> agent , creating a puppet function would not work , as master will not >> be able to access those files. >> You said Can be done with Resources , how can i include a ruby block in >> my manifest , i know using exec resource i can run a ruby script , but >> any better way to do it. >> >> Depends on what you are parsing, and what you need to do with the parsed > result. You may find that there is already a module that does what you > want. > > Basically, the logic that does that has to be an implementation of a > resource type. That is what is responsible for syncing the state of the > agent where it is running with what is on that agent. It gets what was > specified in the manifests in a resource, and the provider logic for that > resource type then does the sync. > > That is how all resource types / providers work. > > This may help you: http://doauto.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/how-to-change-a- > file-using-puppet/ > > And you have Augeas where you can write "lenses" (plugins) to Augeas to > handle specific syntax. > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/augeas.html#loading- > generic-lenses-for-non-standard-files > > http://bombasticmonkey.com/2011/01/02/distributing- > augeas-lenses-with-pluginsync/ > > Hope that helps. > - henrik > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/puppet-users/3lD1tChZQJw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/lkhabk%24uj1%241%40ger.gmane.org. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- * With Regards * * Ritesh Nanda* <http://www.ericsson.com/> -- 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/CAO5CbpAbjoMAH_HHPieAJPakYti3oizbSGEk81TmtO8dbm1QGw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
