Issue #5239 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.

That's much clearer.

There are a cluster of related bits of functionality we'd like to product a 
more coherent story on.
 
  * Resource defaults - setting defaults within a scope for resources
  * Resource collection of virtual resources - Identifying a subset of virtual 
resources to operate on
  * Resource collection of exported resources - Identifying a subset of virtual 
and exported resources to operate on
  * Resource realization - currently bundled with collection, but needs to be 
separated
  * "resources resource" - operating on non-managed resources.

If we separate realization of virtual/exported resources from collection, we 
should be able to collapse a lot of this functionality into a query based 
syntax around collection.

We should be able to query based on environment, whether a resource is managed, 
etc, and be able to produce a much more coherent story.

Does this make a coherent story for those of you watching this ticket? The 
devil is totally in the details, but it feels like the right direction.
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Bug #5239: Exported resources are hard to collect by environment
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5239

Author: Jordan Sissel
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.2
Keywords: exported resources collection environments
Branch: 


I noticed today that Foo <<| |>> collects all Foo resources regardless of 
environment. Doing Foo <<| environment == ... |>> would be cool, but I don't 
think that works.

Why was this a problem? I have multiple deployments; some of which cannot see 
each other on the network (outside of the storeconfigs db). As a result of this 
behavior (collect all resources in all environments), I have nagios instances 
that try to monitor machines they can't see and thus all checks fail and pager 
goes beep beep. ;)

I found a work around using tags.

<pre>
node default {
  # Globally apply an environment-based tag to all resources on each node.
  tag("deployment::$environment")
  ...
}

# And later ...

SomeResource <<| tag == "deployment::$environment" |>> 
</pre>

The above workaround is sufficient for me to continue deploying exported 
resources (not a blocker).

I was expecting collectors of exported resources would only, by default, get 
resources from the same environment. Barring that, I think a query of <<| 
environment == ... |>> would be quite useful rather than resorting to tagging.


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