On Monday, December 3, 2012 5:25:58 PM UTC-6, Dusty Doris wrote: > > [...] I'm trying to figure out how I can re-write this to make it work, > but it appears the puppet dsl only acts on arrays when they are the name > variable and then calls the resource once for each item in the array, > passing that as the name. >
Yes, that is precisely what Puppet does with arrays given as resource titles, and that behavior is triggered *only* by titles. > > So, I suppose right now I need to make my groups better, so they include > all the one-offs and make sure there are no duplicates. Or, I could just > define the one-offs one at a time in each node file. > > I appreciate any suggestions. > > One way to look at your issue is that your site-specific data is too commingled with your code. That's why you have one-offs in the first place. Pull the data together into a class variable somewhere, or even externalize it into an Hiera data store. Drive your firewall declarations with your data instead of pulling the data along behind. More specifically, you can use Puppet hashes or Hiera lookups to dynamically adapt your declarations to specific cases (e.g. to choose parameter values), or you can use the built-in create_resources() function to declare whole resources based on your data. You already know about arrays as resource titles and combining that with defined types; those fit into the picture, too. John -- 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/-/f_CrWCkUOYEJ. 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.
