I've recently added a similar functionality to foreman - it allows you to
query within puppet (or externally via a script) to get back a list of hosts
that answer to a certain criteria.
Currently, one can query for a hosts that belong to a certain class or has a
certain fact, e.g.
in a template you can do:
<% foreman_function("fact=RedHat").each do |host| -%>
something will all my redhat machines goes here..
..
<% end -%>
Ohad
p.s. its not yet in the stable release...
http://theforeman.org
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sven Mueller <puppet-gro...@incase.de>wrote:
>
>
>
> Luke Kanies schrieb:
> > On Oct 19, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Bernhard Bock wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to develop a class that autogenerates a config file based
> >> on an .erb template.
> >> It shall populate the config file with data exported from various
> >> hosts.
> >>
> >> Some pseudocode to clarify my issue:
> >>
> >> node n1 {
> >> @@mytype {
> >> "name":
> >> property => "foo"
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> template.erb:
> >> <% mytype.each do |bar| %>
> >> <%= bar.name %>
> >> <%= bar.property %>
> >> <% end %>
> >>
> >> My question is: How can I access and iterate through the exported
> >> resources in the template? mytype.each will not work...
> >
> > This is getting into semi-supported internal APIs, but you can get the
> > resource list from the catalog, something like this:
> >
> > compiler.catalog.vertices.each do |resource|
> > resource.title
> > resource[:property]
> > end
>
> Being semi-supported or not, can I get to this from a template? I tried
> with lookupvar('compiler') and lookupvar('compiler.catalog.vertices'),
> but lookupvar returns not the variable, but a string. And that is empty
> in both cases. Do I need to define my own function to return something
> more useful?
> Also: how can I check which type the resource has? "resource.type" seems
> wrong (as I expect that the ruby Type is not the same as the type)?
>
> The idea Bernhard had, if I understand it correctly, is to use a custom
> type just to store the wanted data (and being a type, not a variable,
> many instances can exist and get exported). The data is then collected
> by a template. For me, this has two advantages (over other solutions
> available to collect data from multiple hosts):
> 1) The user can change the template as needed
> 2) The resulting file is not edited, but recreated on each run, so its
> content is deterministic after the run, even if someone edited it
> manually beforehand.
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
> >
>
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