Re: [Puppet Users] Exported resources in Puppet 4 without using PuppetDB?

2016-12-18 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Fair enough. It's good to know just in case something can be done. In this case, I don't think there's much of a choice. However, if it is a competing product, I don't think that the PuppetDB project would reject a PR for support for your internal project. It might be faster than getting approval

Re: [Puppet Users] Exported resources in Puppet 4 without using PuppetDB?

2016-12-18 Thread Rob Nelson
Agreed: it's a service, you won't be playing with the Postgres nerd knobs very much, if at all. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:46 PM Jo Rhett wrote: > Consider listing PuppetDB as a single application, not as an app and > database. Closed box, vendor integrated data management. > > On Fri, Dec 16, 20

Re: [Puppet Users] Exported resources in Puppet 4 without using PuppetDB?

2016-12-18 Thread Jo Rhett
Consider listing PuppetDB as a single application, not as an app and database. Closed box, vendor integrated data management. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Johnson Earls wrote: > Hello all, > > I was just wondering - has anyone come across a plugin or something that > would allow the use of e

Re: [Puppet Users] Exported resources in Puppet 4 without using PuppetDB?

2016-12-18 Thread Johnson Earls
Trevor: PostgreSQL is considered a competing product. We're not allowed to use competing products without getting approval from the corporate information security group, legal, marketing, and a high level corporate officer (I don't remember how high off the top of my head, but at least 4 level

Re: [Puppet Users] Exported resources in Puppet 4 without using PuppetDB?

2016-12-18 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Hi Johnson, Do you have any information on why PostgreSQL is taboo? It might help to justify supporting additional back-end databases. To solve your exported resources problem, you can use this as an example https://github.com/simp/pupmod-simp-ssh/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/ssh_globa