On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:32:23 AM UTC-6, Bret Wortman wrote:
>
> I'm looking to implement a hiera backend for our Puppet installation, as
> we routinely deploy systems that are of varying hardware, OS, and which may
> have multiple roles they fill.
>
> I've figured out, I think, how to handle the OS question through facter,
> but implementing server roles isn't quite so clear. I want to maintain that
> information on the server, not on the clients, but everything hiera-related
> seems to use the facts for a given system. Installing a file containing the
> roles on the client seems like a kludge. Is there a more hiera-ish,
> puppet-ish way to accomplish this?
>
>
Suppose you define one class for each role (each of which may declare any
number of resources and other classes). In Puppet 3, I think you can do
this:
# An array of the names of the needed role classes
$role_classes = hiera('role_classes')
# Declare those classes
include ${role_classes}
If I recall correctly, though, you can accomplish the same thing, even in
Puppet 2.[67], with
hiera_include('role_classes')
John
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