On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ken <k...@bob.sh> wrote:
> Yes your write - you can only really do the equiv of:
>
> node foo {
> $bar = "bleah"
> include some_class
> }
>
> No resources. So really your left using a swarm of global vars that
> can passed down to the resources you have show above which are stored
> in a class. So something like:
OMG. That's absolutely awful!
>
> node foo {
> $software1_version = "t.981-1"
> $software1_addons = "1.6-1"
> include my_software
> }
>
> Which works - but is less then ideal because your muddy you have a
> muddy global namespace.
>
> However - one solution is being addressed in Rowlf with parameterized
> classes I believe - which at least allow you to group vars as apposed
> to using global vars. So something like:
>
> node foo {
> include some_class {
> param1 => "foo",
> param2 => "bar",
> }
> }
>
> Will be possible using external nodes I believe. I seem to recall
> Puppet Dashboard (the gui that provides external node support) also
> being able to support this.
>
> ken.
Back to parsing the node manifest until external nodes mature a bit.
Thanks.
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