Puppet can do this. I would propose the following solution, but there may be other ways to do it.
1) Use a template. Templates have embedded ruby code and run on the clients. 2) Link to some library that allows you to query your database (You can use one or more require statements in your ruby code) 3) Embed ruby code to parse and format your variables into configuration See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/templating.html for a bit more about templates. -Brian On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote: > All, > > I have a situation where I need to get some fairly complex > configuration files onto systems, and I'm wondering if puppet can even > do this. Lets say that my external node script will go and source all > the data it needs from an external database, and dump out all > variables that the node will need. The relevant puppet module(s) will > then have to inject these variables into templates to be deployed to > the systems. > > Now, what if the number of variables that get dumped by the external > node script is variable? And, what if these variables are broken into > chunks that need to be split into different files on the remote > system? How would I do such a complex thing in puppet? A lack of any > type of looping constructs in puppet would seem to make this rather > difficult. > > Doug. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
