Issue #2128 has been updated by Jeff McCune.
# 0.24.8 Question # Again, on site with a customer they are considering applying this patch before release to abandon their custom modifications to Puppet. The question came up: Does this change set affect the behavior of 0.24.8 clients? I don't think it does since it's using the REST API code path rather than the XMLRPC code path, but I'd like to double check before I say "No" A "We don't think so" is a good enough answer as long as it's reasonably confident. We'll be testing the 0.24.8 clients against the patched 2.6.8. -Jeff ---------------------------------------- Feature #2128: Allow arbitrary fact as node_name identifier https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2128 Author: Bill Bartlett Status: Merged - Pending Release Priority: High Assignee: Nick Lewis Category: node Target version: 2.6.x Affected Puppet version: 0.24.7 Keywords: Branch: Currently, the only fact available as a node_name identifier is the hostname. I would like to have the capability of having any fact be the node_name identifier. Use Case: The reason this discussion came about is EC2. When an EC2 node is brought up, the hostname is not known. If we were to have a large, auto-scaling infrastructure, it is currently very difficult (impossible?) to automate bringing these EC2 nodes into puppet. One possible solution is to allow any fact as a node_name, and then for each particular EC2 instance type that one would need scaling (apache, memcache, mysql all come to mind among many others), the AMI would be customized with a custom fact. An example could be a fact called "hostclass" that would then be set to "ec2_apache", "ec2_memcache", or similar. This allows the auto-created machine, which we would otherwise be unable to differentiate from any other EC2 node, access to puppet in an automated way. -- 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.
