[Puppet Users] Re: How to handle multiple modules requiring the same packages

2016-06-13 Thread Justin Rowles
At risk of bumping a now truly ancient thread (which I found because I have a 3rd party module and one of my own which both want to control a specific package), I don't see why puppet should complain when two identical (or at least non-contradictory) invocations of the same resource are found.

[Puppet Users] Puppet, Hiera, and Consul

2016-03-31 Thread Justin Rowles
For those who would like to expand their use of Hiera to talk to a Consul server/cluster, British Gas Connected Home have made available a gem called bgch-hiera-consul on rubygems. It derives from lynxman's hiera-consul, but works somewhat differently. It fulfils the hiera_hash and hiera_arra

Re: [Puppet Users] Use nodes with defined resource in nginx configuration

2016-03-31 Thread Justin Rowles
Hi Gareth, I'd be interested on your feedback with a gem that we at BGCH have just released: bgch-hiera-consul. It's on rubygems. It's derived from lynxman's hiera-consul, but the behaviour is different. It permits storing yaml and/or json as a value and parses it for hiera variables. Hope