Please review pull request #53: Display an example of using $settings:: opened by (glarizza)
Description:
Previously, we explained how $settings:: could be used to display
configuration settings inside your Puppet manifests. This commit adds an
example using puppet apply -ve from the command line.
- Opened: Thu Mar 01 16:53:52 UTC 2012
- Based on: puppetlabs:master (6741b28826c6f657be261b6d82a0dfbab3213d21)
- Requested merge: glarizza:feature/master/faq_puppet-e (a137c7b40f67c603edb63e2f99bdfcd0e027d37e)
Diff follows:
diff --git a/source/guides/faq.markdown b/source/guides/faq.markdown
index 569c91a..8774b6b 100644
--- a/source/guides/faq.markdown
+++ b/source/guides/faq.markdown
@@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ master's certname is set to something other than its fully-qualified domain
name, this variable will still contain the server's fqdn.)
* `$serverip` --- Provided by the puppet master; contains the master server's IP address.
* `$serverversion` --- Provided by the puppet master; contains the puppet master's current version.
-* `$settings::<name of setting>` --- Provided by the puppet master; exposes all of the master's [configuration settings](./configuring.html) as variables in the `settings` namespace. Note that other than `$environment`, the agent's settings aren't available in manifests. Added in Puppet 2.6.0.
+* `$settings::<name of setting>` --- Provided by the puppet master; exposes all of the master's [configuration settings](./configuring.html) as variables in the `settings` namespace. Note that other than `$environment`, the agent's settings aren't available in manifests. Added in Puppet 2.6.0. For example, to display your certname:
+
+ puppet apply -ve 'notify {"My certname is: ${settings::certname}":}'
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