Issue #7607 has been updated by Brian Wong.
Nick, Thank you for your comments. Although the environments guide does mention $environment's special behavior, it continues to only describe the case of interpolation inside a manifest. If possible, I would like to see a small update to the documentation describing $environment interpolation in the Puppet master's configuration file or referencing another document about general interpolation which will help the reader come to this conclusion themselves. That way the documentation will be more helpful now until it undergoes the complete overhaul in the future. Is this agreeable? ---------------------------------------- Bug #7607: Environment Variable Interpolation on Puppet Master https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7607 Author: Brian Wong Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Nick Fagerlund Category: Target version: Keywords: Branch: Affected URL: The Puppet documentation on using Environments is described at the following URI: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/environment.html I stumbled upon a blog which states how it is possible to have a Puppet agent's environment be interpolated into the Puppet Master's configuration file. This obviates the need to create an environment declaration for every possible Puppet environment that will be used in the Puppet Master's configuration file. The blog article can be found at: http://hunnur.com/blog/2010/10/dynamic-git-branch-puppet-environments/ The official Puppet documentation on Environments only mentions how the '$environment' variable is interpreted in manifests, but it does not mention that this interpolation is possible in the Puppet Master configuration file. This undocumented feature allows for greater flexibility. Please update the Puppet documentation on Environments to reference this feature and why it is more flexible with many Puppet environments. Engineers using Puppet may have chosen a less scalable method of integrating Puppet into their infrastructure being oblivious of this feature. Thank you. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
