A custom fact worked perfectly.
Thanks very much.....
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 11:22:45 AM UTC-5, Martin Alfke wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> with tags you only can execute classes which are enabled anyway.
> It is a way to limit execution on a certain subset of classes.
>
> What else:
> you can provide a fact at CLI and react on that specific fact:
>
> FACTER_runnow=true puppet agent —test —tags <class>
>
> Inside your class you will do something like
>
> class foo {
> if $::runnow {
> notify { ‘Only when run now is set’: }
> }
> }
>
> On 04 Mar 2015, at 17:12, Steve Harp <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Martin.
> >
> > I've tried adding a tag 'testing' to a class and the class deploys
> regardless of the '--tags testing' being on the puppet agent command line
> or not. What am I missing? I need the class to deploy if and only if
> specified.
> >
> > Thanks...
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:05:34 AM UTC-5, Martin Alfke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On 04 Mar 2015, at 15:57, Steve Harp <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > I'm using Puppet for many configuration items and package deployments.
> I need to be able to only deploy certain packages/classes when the Agent
> sends a definable command line option.
> > >
> > > Example: puppet agent --onetime --no-daemonize --verbose
> --do_something_special
> > >
> > > I want to be able to execute a class only when the
> '--do_something_special' flag is passed.
> >
> > You can use the —tag option to only do what is mentioned in a specific
> class.
> >
> > e.g. puppet agent —test —tags apache
> >
> > Classes will become tags automatically.
> > Besides this you can use the tag metaparameter on the package resource.
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > Martin
> >
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