Issue #11250 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.
Walter, we are generally pushing solutions like Hiera for externalizing data in modules, and that can be done on a per-environment basis. Assuming that problem is solved, is there still a need for this feature request? I generally consider it an anti-pattern to have any mention of $environment in puppet manifests at all. They shouldn't have to know or care. ---------------------------------------- Feature #11250: inheritance for environments on resource level instead of module level https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11250 Author: Walter Heck Status: Investigating Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: modules Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: We have a staging environment that has only minor changes from production (example: apt and dns modules contain small changes because they are in geographically different places). Obviously, we could use something like: <pre>nameservers => environment ? { staging => [123.1.2.3, 124.3.2.1] production => [127.1.2.4, 125.7.3.1] } file { /etc/resolve.conf: source => template://puppet/dns/resolve.conf }</pre> But I'm not a big fan of that, as it gets messy when the changes are larger. Besides that, I like to think that sometime in the future I want to release our module library to the public, which means I don't want them cluttered with 'if $environment == ' statements. The approach used now is that we have two modules in $confdir/environments/$environment/modules. These modules however, are only marginally different from their production versions (minor apt and dns changes). Even so, the whol module needs to be duplicated, which brings with it soem dangers. What I would like to see is a possibility to have resource-level inheritance instead of module-level inheritance. So if we're in environment X and I'm including a class apt::repo::backports, autoloading check $confdir/environments/X/modules/apt/manifests/repo/backports.pp only, the rest of the apt module doesn't need to be there. That way, changes between different environments stay small. Not sure if it is clear, feel free to ask questions. -- 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.
