Re: [Puppet Users] automatic load of node definition file

2012-09-19 Thread jcbollinger
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:36:53 PM UTC-5, Philip Brown wrote: [yes, this is a reply to an OOOLD message. sorry :) I think it's still useful] This is regarding a construct that I suggested to the list back in May, and still haven't found anything better for my purposes. So, I'm

Re: [Puppet Users] automatic load of node definition file

2012-09-19 Thread Philip Brown
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:36 AM, jcbollinger john.bollin...@stjude.org wrote: On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:36:53 PM UTC-5, Philip Brown wrote: ... ... I think that's just fine. Though no one would know from the responses you received before, I think some people do pretty much what

Re: [Puppet Users] automatic load of node definition file

2012-09-18 Thread Philip Brown
[yes, this is a reply to an OOOLD message. sorry :) I think it's still useful] This is regarding a construct that I suggested to the list back in May, and still haven't found anything better for my purposes. So, I'm fleshing out the implementation details for people a bit more. The idea: Have

[Puppet Users] automatic load of node definition file

2012-05-02 Thread Philip Brown
I vaguely recall some kind of reference mentioning that as a fallback, puppet master would attempt to load host.fqdn.pp to find a node definition. Is that a false memory? In practice, it does not seem to do that. Along those lines, is it possible to MAKE it do that? I've tried import

Re: [Puppet Users] automatic load of node definition file

2012-05-02 Thread Christopher Wood
At the bottom of my site.pp I have: import nodes/* I haven't heard of this autoload thing, but then I'm newish. On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:06:17AM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: I vaguely recall some kind of reference mentioning that as a fallback, puppet master would attempt to load 

Re: [Puppet Users] automatic load of node definition file

2012-05-02 Thread Denmat
Hi, load host.fqdn.pp to find a node it will search hostname and fqdn but not hostname.fqdn. This all sounds like a lot of work to me. How do you intend to manage changes that effect 300 nodes? What I do is that I create a custom that assigns a role to certain node types. I then have a