Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-09 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Jeff Sussna wrote: > This sounds like a fine solution. I won't have many, and easy enough > to encapsulate the data access in a shell script, and it sounds like I > can call generate directly from my template where I need the dynamic > values. > > I may be getting

[Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-09 Thread Jeff Sussna
This sounds like a fine solution. I won't have many, and easy enough to encapsulate the data access in a shell script, and it sounds like I can call generate directly from my template where I need the dynamic values. I may be getting greedy, but if a value doesn't change between runs, will Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-07 Thread Nigel Kersten
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, windowsrefund wrote: > > > On Jan 6, 10:25 am, Jeff Sussna wrote: > > (How) do folks handle situations where puppet variables need to be > > populated from dynamic database queries? > > Most folks do not. However, some have spawned a framework called > hiera. By de

[Puppet Users] Re: Database calls in puppet manifests

2012-01-06 Thread windowsrefund
On Jan 6, 10:25 am, Jeff Sussna wrote: > (How) do folks handle situations where puppet variables need to be > populated from dynamic database queries? Most folks do not. However, some have spawned a framework called hiera. By default, hiera uses a yaml backend but it can certainly be extended t