My only concern about this is that functions evaluate on the server, right?
The only place I change ip's is in a variable ($ip) in nodes.pp for each
node.  I do export a host{} entry for each box to storeconfig but I don't
know if I can rely on that being updated in time for the function to look.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Dan Bode <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ashley Penney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'll give this a try, I've never used or written a function so it's a good
>> learning exercise.
>>
>
> I am sure you have used at least 2 functions, template and include :)
>
>>
>> My alternative plan was to make an awful exec{} that ran after the network
>> define did that would do a 'sed' on the /etc/hosts file to fix puppet's ip,
>> which is terrible. :)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Dan Bode <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ashley,
>>>
>>> since you are re-ip-ing machines to a different subnet, then I assume
>>> that you are maintaining the IP address for every node on the puppet server?
>>>
>>> The problem with facts here is that you are determining the IPaddress of
>>> the puppet master based on what the IP is as opposed to what it should be
>>> (after the puppet run). I would recommend using a function instead.
>>>
>>>
>>>     host { "puppet":
>>>         ensure => "present",
>>>         ip => get_puppet_master($ip),
>>>     }
>>>
>>> and then move the fact logic to this function.
>>>
>>> hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Ashley Penney <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've a fairly odd network setup and I keep running into a minor but
>>>> irritating issue.  We have various subnets and depending on which subnet 
>>>> you
>>>> are on you have to contact puppet by different IPs.  I have various
>>>> workarounds for this and I build a /etc/hosts on each box with an entry for
>>>> 'puppet' with the correct IP.  This is currently done via a fact as 
>>>> follows:
>>>>
>>>> Facter.add("puppetip") do
>>>>     setcode do
>>>>
>>>>         result = case Facter["ipaddress"].value
>>>>             when /10.241.209/: "10.241.209.118"
>>>>             else "140.247.200.118"
>>>>         end
>>>>
>>>>         result
>>>>     end
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> Then I have an entry in hosts.pp that reads:
>>>>
>>>>     host { "puppet":
>>>>         ensure => "present",
>>>>         ip => "$puppetip",
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>> This works great except in cases where I have to re-ip a machine to a
>>>> different subnet (which happens constantly for reasons too depressing to
>>>> describe).  In this case when my defines that update the network run they
>>>> are unable to update the /etc/hosts entry because the facter stuff is
>>>> evaluated at the start of the run.  My host then changes IP and cannot
>>>> recontact puppet to continue.  I have to ssh in and manually change
>>>> /etc/hosts and then run puppet again.
>>>>
>>>> This irritates the hell out of me, but I can't think of another puppet
>>>> solution for this.  I can't rely on split dns (or any dns, it's broken and
>>>> not ran by me) so that's not an option.  Anyone have any ideas how I could
>>>> work around this?
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