Hi Chris,
no worries, I hope that I didn’t offend you.
Usually I try to tell people the best solution first and go for hacks
afterwards.
This allows them to first learn about the concepts.
Best,
Martin
> On 20 Nov 2017, at 05:38, Chris Denneen wrote:
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> Martin,
> Obviously with templates be
Martin,
Obviously with templates being my first and last recommendation the Exec wasn’t
my choice either but there are always different ways to skin a cat and not
knowing why the OP hasn’t used them could be because they aren’t an option, I
obviously hope not but without knowing background I wa
Hi Chris,
> On 18 Nov 2017, at 15:07, Chris Denneen wrote:
>
> Can you use an ERB template to construct the changes you require rather than
> augeas?
There is a new template engine since Puppet 4: EPP (Embedded Puppet)
This prevents people from doing weird ruby stuff in a file.
Templates shoul
Can you use an ERB template to construct the changes you require rather than
augeas?
If not another suggestion would be 1 file resource from src to temp location,
which only gets updated when src changes. An Exec that is refreshonly that
copies from temp to dest (which is notified by file resour
Hi Dave,
> On 17 Nov 2017, at 16:21, Dave F wrote:
>
> Hi
>
[…]
> I'm doing this by
>
> a) using a file resource to put the xml file in place
> b) Using Augeas to search and replace a value within the file
>
> This all works... except that, of course, everytime puppet runs, step a)
> notice
Hi
I'm pretty new to puppet and am still learning, so apologies for what is
probably a daft question..
I'm using puppet to deploy tomcat, and as part of this I need to
dynamically edit an XML file based on data passed to the class from heira.
I'm doing this by
a) using a file resource to put
Hi,
I'm fairly new to puppet and am working my way through various approaches
to problems - probably doing them in all the worst possible ways...
One thing I'm currently trying to do is configure an application using
heira and puppet. The application comes with a selection of default
template
