On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to figure out the best solution for using facts of other > nodes in manifests. > > I understand the use of exported configs and the concat module but, I > think, when using someone's contributed module, unless they wrote the > module using those solutions, I would have to rewrite the module > myself. > > Here is the best way I can explain the particular problem I'm running > into. Maybe I'm totally on the wrong path with this. > > class my_mysql_server { > class { 'mysql::server': } > # other stuff as needed > # ... > } > > node node1.example.com { > class { 'my_mysql_server': } > } > > node node2.example.com { > class { 'some::app::db': > db_username => 'foo', > db_password => 'password', > db_host => $my_mysql_server::fqdn, > } > } > > In this case, 'some::app' is a contributed module. $db_host in 'db.pp' > simply references a single variable in a template - not a loop and not > using concat. > > This does work, but I'm not entirely comfortable with it. For one, if > my_mysql_server is never applied, $fqdn will not be available. This > generally won't happen in the above example, but it's still a concern > I have. Secondly, if I choose to apply my_mysql_server to two nodes, > there would be more than one result for db_host. I'm not exactly sure > how to get around this. > > What's the best practice for this type of situation? Should I just > hard-code the fqdn of my_mysql_server and be done with it? Or is there > a more dynamic way to do this? >
if you are interested in using foreman, see http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/01/getting-foreman-search-results-into.html Ohad > > Thanks, > Joe > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
