Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Best way to change settings on an individual node

2017-11-03 Thread Jack Bishop
After reading more hiera docs, I think that is the way to go. thanks Rob, Jack On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Rob Nelson wrote: > If the only difference is in the virtual hosts, then you should be able to > apply the same classes to each and use different data only. Hiera, included > with pupp

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Best way to change settings on an individual node

2017-11-02 Thread Rob Nelson
If the only difference is in the virtual hosts, then you should be able to apply the same classes to each and use different data only. Hiera, included with puppet, is a key/value pair lookup tool that can help here, so each node would receive their vhost data and only their vhosts. I think you shou

[Puppet Users] Re: Best way to change settings on an individual node

2017-11-02 Thread jackandnora
Thanks Eric. I've read that documentation and it always refers to multiple nodes. It just feels like I'm doing it wrong. If I have a small group of 4 web servers that all run different virtual hosts, the only way to use the node classification groups is to pin each node to it's own group and

[Puppet Users] Re: Best way to change settings on an individual node

2017-11-02 Thread jackandnora
Thanks Eric, On Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 11:54:07 AM UTC-4, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > Hi Jack, for puppet enterprise there's a built-in workflow for assigning > classes to nodes - the phrase you're looking for is called "node > classification" in puppet-speak. here's the relevant doc: > h

[Puppet Users] Re: Best way to change settings on an individual node

2017-11-02 Thread Eric Sorenson
Hi Jack, for puppet enterprise there's a built-in workflow for assigning classes to nodes - the phrase you're looking for is called "node classification" in puppet-speak. here's the relevant doc: https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2017.3/managing_nodes/grouping_and_classifying_nodes.html hope this he