I'm not sure that we have a use case for the server, but as an aside, we do have a use case on the agent side, if that is ever a concern:
We use the ability to set environment variables when doing OpenStack upgrades. OpenStack has the concept of public (publicURL) and private (internalURL) endpoints. Normally during our Puppet runs it uses the public endpoints for all API calls and provisioning. However, when we're doing upgrades, we sometimes have the external load balancer disabled so that clients can not make changes to a database we may revert. In this case, we set the OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE environment variable to 'internalURL' in our upgrade scripts. I don't know if this will ever be an issue for the agent, but in this situation a config based option would be significantly less useful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/2c889e90-8514-4c8c-836b-93633a2e904b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
