Hi, I'm interested in getting some feedback from the community. What are your thoughts on using roles with a good external node classifier such as Puppet Enterprise?
With our without an ENC, profiles make absolute sense as a place to inject data and for grouping independent classes into functional assemblies. However, most node classifiers provide an easy way to group those profiles into an assembled product. For example, with PE we could eliminate roles entirely, and instead use groups to pull profiles together into an assembled system. The advantage I see with this approach is that it could make it easier for consumers of PE to modify or create new roles. A checkin/deploy cycle for the code would not be necessary. The disadvantage I see is that this somewhat changes the roles/profiles paradigm, and would create a dependency on the ENC. It would also remove the roles from the RCS, which would potentially change or break the auditing process. Thoughts? -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
