[Puppet Users] Re: Nested arrays in puppet....

2009-04-07 Thread Philip Zeyliger
I haven't seen a way to do this, because puppet's configuration has limited datatypes. To do something similar, I encoded the same data in strings. I used this snippet in my manifest: sources => ["key1/host1:1234", "key2/host2:1234"] And this snippet in my template: <%# syntax is "/" %> <% sou

[Puppet Users] Visualizing puppet circular dependencies

2009-03-05 Thread Philip Zeyliger
I recently got a scary-looking circular dependency as a puppet error, and it took some thought to decipher it. Long story short, I fed it to graphviz, and the graph made it obvious where the problem was. Thought I'd share, in case others are having the same trouble. Code's at http://gist.github

[Puppet Users] visualizations

2009-03-04 Thread Philip Zeyliger
Hello! My puppet scripts have gotten complicated, and I'd like to visualize what's going on. I've seen http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#how-do-i-use-puppet-s-graphing-support , but I find that the graph is pretty unwieldy, and graphviz renders it illegibly. Has