Thanks for the reply. You've answered my question. I'll post back if I need anymore help.
On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 3:49:38 PM UTC+1, Ashley Penney wrote: > > Foreman does replace nodes.pp. It acts as an 'ENC', the external node > classifier. We'd need more details on what you're doing with templates in > Puppet and nodes.pp to really answer this question. Are you thinking in > terms of how you'd put variables into nodes directly with Foreman? There's > space in the host page in Foreman for adding variables, under "Parameters" > if you want to add them directly. A better approach to this is to look > into Hiera, where you build a hierarchal data store that relies on various > facts to provide the appropriate contents to variables to then consume in > erb templates. > > Ideally you'd find ways to not have node specific information, but if you > did need it you'd add $::fqdn to your hiera hierarchy and then add > nodename.yaml files for each node where you listed out all the variables. > This has the big benefit of remaining version controlled, unlike parameter > entries in Foreman. > > As I said earlier, if you give some use cases we can probably explain this > all a little better to you. > > Thanks, > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM, timo <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have just started to use Foreman 1.1. I have been using Puppet for a >> while and have some custom modules and ones that have been dragged down >> from git etc. >> >> I am using nodes.pp in Puppet to assign classes and template entries to >> hosts. >> >> So is Foreman meant to eliminate my need for a nodes.pp? How do I manage >> my erb templates in Puppet without a nodes.pp? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
