On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Douglas Garstang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote: >> >>> Anyone know if there's a plan to allow definitions to be used in >>> external nodes? Not having that ability is a major pain in the ass. It >>> really means that all that really works with external nodes is really >>> simple cases of a single piece of software being installed and >>> configured, like apache for example. >> >> I've used external nodes all along and never found this to be a limitation. >> Classes can do much much more than one thing, so I'm not sure what you mean. >> >> External nodes can have classes and variables. Classes can call definitions. >> Facts and variables can be passed to those definitions. >> >> What additional functionality would you get? > > I mean that you need to create a new class for each customer you add. > That does not scale.
Why can't you have a class that instantiates your defined type? > > Doug. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
