On Sep 11, 1:13 pm, Johnny Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using 3 environments in puppet. Each environment points
> to different IPs and/or hostnames for things ranging from
> nfs mounts to mail servers, etc.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to use the exact same file in each
> environment, where the IPs/hostnames/etc get called via a
> variable.
>
> Is there a best practice established in terms of where to
> store such variables? It seems like each node section in
> nodes.pp is the logical choice, but I suppose it's also
> possible to put a case statement at the beginning of each
> module that assigns the variables based on $environment.
I am probably way off base here but I wanted to do something similar
(I think) although I'm not using environments, yet. I have multiple
types of hardware (1U rack & small desktop box) that I want to manage
with the same set of files. However the only way I can tell them
apart is by hostname; factor doesn't really have any way to
distinguish between the hardware. So what I did was create a GLOBAL
module with a single init.pp and contents like this:
class GLOBAL {
$NODE_TYPE = $NOTE_TYPE
$MANUFACTURER = "Dell"
}
Then in my node definition I set the variable $NODE_TYPE to something
"desktop" and then include GLOBAL. Now I can reference $NODE_TYPE in
any of my modules. For example, I'm installing a specific /etc/
modules with the following file { source => "common/etc/modules.
$NODE_TYPE" }. All this juggling is necessary because of the scope of
Puppet variables and the fact that it doesn't have global variables.
Does this help? Is there a better way to do this? Am I totally off
base here?
Thanx!
Richard
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