On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:37:42 AM UTC-5, Christian Charpentier wrote:
I have a file accounts.victorbuckservices.com.conf and not an .erb
template.
Actually, it probably *is* a trivial ERB template, even though it was not
written as one. As long as it does not contain the two-character sequence
%, it can be construed as an ERB template containing only template text.
It seems a little weird to me that we have to use template function either
for .erb template or file backend.
You don't have to do so. If you want specifically to put the verbatim
contents of a file into a resource property, then you can use the file()
function
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.5.latest/function.html#file
instead.
If you want to provide both the option of using all static content and the
option of providing dynamic, templated content, however, then using the
template() function is a pretty simple way of doing so. Few files that are
not ERB or similar templates will be misinterpreted by ERB, so you can
point your resource at either, and it will just work. This is a question
of the implementation of your class, which is under your control.
Note also that as far as I know, using the .erb file extension is purely
a convention. I do not think the template() function requires templates to
be named that way (and certainly no such requirement seems to be
documented). On the other hand, template() does implement some magic
around modules' 'templates/' directories. In this case, I think that's
where the problem resides. The templating docs
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/templating.html#evaluating-templates
describe how the template() function resolves template file names.
John
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