On Monday, August 31, 2015, Matthew Stone <m...@souldo.net> wrote:
> For instances like this, I've usually smashed everything into a one-liner
> using the powershell provider. So...something along the lines of:
>
> command => " \$thing = <result of your query>; Write-Host \"Puppet
> ${thingamajig} is a $\thing\""
>
> As can be seen above, it can start looking pretty ugly, especially if the
> commands you are executing are a bit longwinded. You can get a lot more
> power out of writing custom types/providers and it make for a lot cleaner
> looking manifest, but there aren't a lot of publicly available
> windows-specific ones in the wild right now.
>
I thought about a blog post series specifically about types and providers
in Windows.
> I think most people tend to steer towards DSC for that and hope for the
> best.
>
>
> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 9:06:13 AM UTC-7, Thomas Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> Nice one, I'll give that a go. You don't happen to know how I can set a
>> variable to equal the result of a powershell command do you? I need to use
>> the hostname of the machine as a parameter for another command. At the
>> minute I'm using hard-coding which is obviously a cardinal sin.
>>
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