Issue #18551 has been updated by Ken Coar.
Applications that manage Puppet's environments external to Puppet itself -- such as git clone updates handled by cron, or a tool to show an inheritance chart -- may need this information. I can see that this wouldn't work as a fact after all, but as a REST API call it would be useful. For example, in our situation we have dozens of environments and the inheritance is a nightmare to figure out unless you know where to look and how to interpret what you see. I think it would be a good feature to be able to code a script to ask the puppetmaster 'what's the modulepath inheritance for module foo' so that it can verify that the appropriate resources are available (or absent) in each element of the path. For example, the 'development' environment might inherit from 'qa' which might inherit from 'production', and being able to predict the origin from which file resources will be fetched would be very valuable: sometimes you want them to be local to development, but after release you want to nuke those and have them fetched from the production path. I hope that's more clear? Thanks! ---------------------------------------- Feature #18551: REST API should be queryable for modulepath inheritance https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18551#change-92823 * Author: Ken Coar * Status: Needs More Information * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Ken Coar * Category: API * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: 2.7.3 * Keywords: REST API modulepath module_path * Branch: ---------------------------------------- If the module environment inheritance path is incorrect, a client can be seriously borked when the catalogue is run. Unfortunately, with Puppet 2.7.3, it appears that the only ways to find out what the module path is are: * Have access to the puppetmaster and find it there * Run the catalogue on the client. The feature request here is that the module path be determinable by the client through the REST API either: * as a 'fact' discoverable *via* the `node` or `facts` API path, or * as part of a new API path that can be queried for configuration information that doesn't fall into any other existing catagory. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
