That looks like what I need, I will test it all later. Thanks João and
Andreas!
On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 8:29:16 PM UTC-4, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
>
> On 2015-10-05 17:51, Fabien Delpierre wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > I have something like this in a manifest:
> >
> > class foo(
> > $python_pips = {
> > pbr => { ensure => '1.3.0', install_args => ['-I'] },
> > linecache2 => { ensure => '1.0.0', install_args => ['-I'] },
> > elasticsearch => { ensure => '1.6.0', install_args => ['-I'] },
> > },
> > ) {
> > require python
> > create_resources('python::pip', $python_pips)
> > }
> >
> > I'm using this module: https://github.com/stankevich/puppet-python
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's a more elegant way of telling the python::pip
> > resource to use the -I flag when installing those three pip packages.
>
> The create_resources function supports a third argument for just this
> use case: a hash with defaults for each created resource
> (
> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.stable/function.html#createresources).
>
>
> This works just fine in Puppet 3.x.
>
> In your case you would do:
>
> ```
> $python_pips = {
> pbr => { ensure => '1.3.0' },
> linecache2 => { ensure => '1.0.0' },
> elasticsearch => { ensure => '1.6.0' },
> }
>
> $python_pip_defaults = {
> install_args => [ '-I' ],
> }
>
> require python
>
> create_resources('::python::pip', $python_pips, $python_pip_defaults)
> ```
>
> You can define that defaults hash in Hiera as well:
>
> ```
> foo::python_pip_defaults:
> install_args: [ '-I' ]
> proxy: 'http://proxy.example.com:3128'
>
> foo::python_pips:
> "pbr":
> ensure: 1.3.0
> "linecache2":
> ensure: 1.0.0
> "elasticsearch":
> ensure: 1.6.0
> ```
>
> Then in your profile (or whatever kind of wrapper class you use):
>
> ```
> $pips = hiera_hash('foo::python_pips', {})
> $pip_defaults = hiera_hash('foo::python_pip_defaults', {})
>
> create_resources('::python::pip', $pips, $pip_defaults)
> ```
>
> We make use of this pattern extensively in our profile classes whenever
> there are resources to create (usually defined or native types).
>
> HTH Andreas
>
>
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