Douglas,
If you don't use a conditional somewhere, how are you going to decide
what resources are declared on what clients?
In that blog example, the classes are loaded based on the value of a
fact reported by the Puppet client, in some ways more reliable than a
variable defined in a Puppet
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Luke Bigum luke.bi...@lmax.com wrote:
Douglas,
If you don't use a conditional somewhere, how are you going to decide what
resources are declared on what clients?
I never said I didn't want to use conditionals somewhere.
In that blog example, the classes
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From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
[mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Douglas Garstang
Sent: 03 June 2011 16:21
To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Resources existing in
different operating systems.
All I
Users] Re: Resources existing in
different operating systems.
All I was asking for was a way to conditional manage a
resource based on the operating system. Something like:
file {
$operatingsystem ? {
'centos' = {
/etc/somefile:
source =
},
'default
On 03/06/11 16:21, Douglas Garstang wrote:
I'd also like to see something, maybe in the best practices document
on the Puppet Labs website indicating which is the correct way to
handle specific operating ystem logic. Having multiple classes (ie a
lot of classes) per module, means more files,
On 06/03/2011 10:04 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
What if the file doesn't exist at all on the other distro? I know for
example that centos creates a symlink from /boot/grub/grub.conf to
/etc/grub.conf. What if I only wanted to manage this file for CentOS,
and for other distro's, do nothing ?
What if the file doesn't exist at all on the other distro? I
know for example that centos creates a symlink from
/boot/grub/grub.conf to /etc/grub.conf. What if I only wanted
to manage this file for CentOS, and for other distro's, do nothing ?
Put the file resource inside the case
Great to see this discussed, thanks for bringing it up.
(Disclaimer: I'm the author of the blog post)
On 03/06/11 18:05, Luke Bigum wrote:
On 03/06/11 16:21, Douglas Garstang wrote:
I'd also like to see something, maybe in the best practices document
on the Puppet Labs website indicating
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Douglas Garstang
doug.garst...@gmail.comwrote:
So... I'm thinking about how to have puppet manage different operating
systems. It's one thing to use a selector to determine the value of specific
resources attribute, but what do you do when a file may not exist
