Hi
I agree, and why I was expecting to be shown the error of my ways. :)

I am still in two minds about where cobbler stops and where puppet starts
and where config should be living... the idea/view I have is that cobbler
should facilitate building of an OS and puppet
should facilitate configuration of an OS but that the data should be a
third entity but that is very abstract view of things. Ironically I decided
on yaml because I felt it would be easier to read and even more ironic is
that I could not get the initial yaml file to work so wrote a json file and
then used ruby to convert the json into yaml... another longer term idea
was to write a validator that in addition to testing normal parsing would
also validate the config file for things like sane ip addresses, duplicate
entries etc.

Regards

On 31 January 2012 16:20, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, that could work, but it's kind of ironic too -- Many people consider
> Cobbler to be a lightweight CMDB.
>
> It used to have a YAML data store, but we moved away from that due to YAML
> being annoying for humans to edit (and also for some performance reasons),
> with all of the line endings and making it easy to get an error in it.
>  JSON is more or less the same thing.
>
> While you don't have all of your nodes in one file, you have them in
> multiple files, which is more or less the same thing.
>
>
>
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