On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Robin Lee Powell < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:09:25AM -0700, Gavin Williams wrote: > > Sounds like The Foreman [1] might be a good option if you want to manage > > 'should', not 'is'... > > > > [1] http://theforeman.org/ > > *nod* Thanks, I should look at that again; it's been a while. > > Unfortunately our internal abstraction isn't host/VM/node based at > all; it's based on sites (i.e. foo.company.com is a site, as is > bar.company.com), which have one or more associated nodes. > Foreman supports multiple Organizations and locations out of the box, especially since this is a common usage case. Ohad > > Having read > > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/subsystem_catalog_compilation.html > and poking around a bit, I've had the following additional thoughts: > > 1. External Facts ( > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/latest/custom_facts.html#external-facts > ) > > 2. generate() + stdlib's loadyaml() to just grab the values out of > a bunch of on-disk files via a shell script or something > > 3. Mush all the values into one tree *in Hiera*. Currently all the > values are in hiera but split up, so one node might see: > > sites: > alice: > premium: true > > And another might see: > > sites: > bob: > premium: false > > But certain parts of the code need to see: > > sites: > alice: > premium: true > bob: > premium: false > > I could simply de-hierachicalize (lol) all such information so that > it's in one big blob in hiera somewhere. > > That gets ugly, though, just because it's one giant file; it's a lot > easier on my users when each site is its own file. > > I wonder if there's a way to tell hiera "Please load every file in > this directory for every node"? > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20141030002856.GC6484%40stodi.digitalkingdom.org > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACUhpZELirniW3%3DpRBMOCYB%2BP%2BhK4JYSUdEgp0v-gaAhYjMQxg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
