[Puppet Users] Moving from Puppet 0.25 to Puppet 2.6+ : global scope/variables

2012-04-24 Thread Calimero
Hi, I worked with puppet ( 0.25) back in 2008/2009. We were able to deploy 200 servers from scratch and manage them. It worked fine. I'm now with a new customer and I'm pushing Puppet (and I'm also back to puppet on a side project). We're considering Puppet 2.6 to manage RHEL/CentOS 5 or 6

Re: [Puppet Users] Moving from Puppet 0.25 to Puppet 2.6+ : global scope/variables

2012-04-24 Thread Ashley Penney
This was a long email! The answer to your problems is definitely something like Hiera. You make a common.yaml that has all your defaults and then you can overwrite these based on any fact you like, when building the hierarchy. You can make a hierarchy like: fqdn environment common.yaml Then

Re: [Puppet Users] Moving from Puppet 0.25 to Puppet 2.6+ : global scope/variables

2012-04-24 Thread Les Ault
On 04/24/2012 09:19 AM, Calimero wrote: Hi, I worked with puppet ( 0.25) back in 2008/2009. We were able to deploy 200 servers from scratch and manage them. It worked fine. I'm now with a new customer and I'm pushing Puppet (and I'm also back to puppet on a side project). We're considering