Issue #2128 has been updated by Jeff McCune. Status changed from Merged - Pending Release to Accepted Assignee changed from Nick Lewis to Jeff McCune
# Reopened # Jacob, I'd like to provide more detailed information in the documentation strings of the options. This information will then flow into the online documentation, the commented puppet.conf and the help command. This should be a quick fix so I'll take care of it rather than making you and nick switch contexts again. I likely won't have it done tonight but wanted to update the ticket status. ---------------------------------------- Feature #2128: Allow arbitrary fact as node_name identifier https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2128 Author: Bill Bartlett Status: Accepted Priority: High Assignee: Jeff McCune 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.
