Re: [Puppet Users] ENC vs manifest - cage match

2014-10-29 Thread Atom Powers
Jon, Were you asking which tool you should use, or asking what happens when you define the same variable in both tools? An ENC sets global variables, "parameters". A manifest uses data from variables/parameters. Puppet won't let you redefine or duplicate a variable or resources so in that contex

Re: [Puppet Users] ENC vs manifest - cage match

2014-10-29 Thread Thomas Bendler
It depend on the scope, there are already some modules with in module hiera that do not fully work in conjunction with ENC (i.e. puppetlabs/mcollective). You can still use the module but you can't benefit from in module hiera. If you can accept this limitations, Foreman is from my point of view the

Re: [Puppet Users] ENC vs manifest - cage match

2014-10-29 Thread Felix Frank
On 10/29/2014 11:44 AM, JonY wrote: > If we throw these two into the octagon.. who wins? If one says "add it" > and the other says "remove it".. what do I end up with? There are exactly two things that might compel me to consider using an ENC: 1. If I really wanted a web interface for managing m