Fair enough. It's good to know just in case something can be done. In this case, I don't think there's much of a choice.
However, if it is a competing product, I don't think that the PuppetDB project would reject a PR for support for your internal project. It might be faster than getting approval from on high! Thanks, Trevor On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Johnson Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > Trevor: PostgreSQL is considered a competing product. We're not allowed > to use competing products without getting approval from the corporate > information security group, legal, marketing, and a high level corporate > officer (I don't remember how high off the top of my head, but at least 4 > levels above my manager), and it's a process that takes months to go > through. > > On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 9:50:18 AM UTC-8, Trevor Vaughan wrote: >> >> Hi Johnson, >> >> Do you have any information on why PostgreSQL is taboo? It might help to >> justify supporting additional back-end databases. >> >> To solve your exported resources problem, you can use this as an example >> https://github.com/simp/pupmod-simp-ssh/blob/master/ >> lib/puppet/parser/functions/ssh_global_known_hosts.rb. >> >> Now, be aware that this will *not* synchronize between multiple servers >> but, if you have a single master, it will work just fine. Alternatively, if >> you have a shared filesystem it will also work. >> >> We're working toward revamping these types of items to use a shared >> synchronization system but it's not high priority at this time since most >> places can use PuppetDB. >> >> A better bet might be to take this snippet and turn it into something >> that writes to a DB that you control and then have a Hiera backend that >> feeds your your data as collected from that backend on a regular basis. >> >> In Puppet functions, you have the entire catalog at your disposal and can >> do with the data what you will. >> >> Good Luck, >> >> Trevor >> >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Johnson Earls <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I was just wondering - has anyone come across a plugin or something that >>> would allow the use of exported resources in Puppet 4.x *without* using >>> PuppetDB? The company I work for has declared PostgreSQL taboo within the >>> corporate network and so I cannot run PuppetDB, and the lack of exported >>> resources is really starting to grate. I'm hoping someone has seen >>> something out there that can help solve this for me :) >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> - Johnson >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ms >>> gid/puppet-users/95a0f132-7b41-4158-af41-8a9785646aa8%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/95a0f132-7b41-4158-af41-8a9785646aa8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Trevor Vaughan >> Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc >> (410) 541-6699 x788 <(410)%20541-6699> >> >> -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- >> > -- > 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/7966276a-e6d6-4447-b2d3-6654667fd1e3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7966276a-e6d6-4447-b2d3-6654667fd1e3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 x788 -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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/CANs%2BFoXJZ8ryw47xdo6KR%3D04%3Dvz5SBHQy5B40VRaBg8z0uHcbQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
