On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Matthew <matt...@sympoz.com> wrote: > I'm in the same boat here. I have a puppet master server that provides > config to a few different classes of machines. I'm struggling with a way to > have instances from one autoscale group come up, and attach to a > "webgroup-a" or "webgroup-b" puppet configuration. > > Is there a way for a puppet client to pass along some bit of information to > the master, other than a hostname, to identify itself as having booted into > a particular class, and thus to receive particular configuration?
This sounds like a custom fact. If you're doing this from a script a quick and dirty (but not ideal long term since it's not clear where this fact came from) is to simply export an environment variable on the agent: export FACTER_FACT_AUTOSCALE_GROUP=webgroup-b puppet agent --test When the puppet agent connects to the master there will be a fact named fact_autoscale_group with the value of "webgroup-b". I've used this before to signal to the master how the agent should configure a new Puppet master worker behind a load balancer. -Jeff -- 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.
