On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, treydock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ive struggled with the same problem of distributing variables and other > generated data amongst hosts. > > For external resources Ive found a great use in configuring a BackupPC > server. Each node builds their backup configuration file with tag > 'backuppc_server_conf' and the server retrieves all the generated files > with that tag. > > What I havent been unable to solve, is making each nodes hiera values > accessable to each other. My hierarchy is $fqdn->common. The very crude > workaround Ive used is in a module, query foreman for all fqdn's. Then > pass that to a define that 'redefines' fqdn variable before calling hiera. > > Is there alternatively a way to query resources like all mysql::db types? > I would like to just get all the mysql::db instances on a given node so > other nodes could use that data. This could be another way to configure > backuppc or generate monitoring checks. > not sure if you already sorted that out or not, but thats the idea behind the search function that queries foreman, see http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/01/getting-foreman-search-results-into.html Ohad > > - Trey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/5a1FTfRCFSsJ. > 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.
