Issue #2658 has been updated by Luke Kanies.
So it sounds like the current consensus is that this is worth turning into more
complete code, but there are still some usability issues.
It shouldn't be *too* hard to add the ability to selectively pick one or more
stages, with a '--stage' option or something.
It actually feels like we're at the point where we need a generalized means of
selecting which portions of the catalog you want to run. We can already select
by tag, people want to select an individual resource, and there are probably
lots of other means people want to use to reduce the portion of the catalog
being run.
Anyone inspired enough to open a new ticket on that?
In the meantime, I might just implement this without that ability, and it can
always be added later.
The only concern I have is whether it's sufficient to restrict stages to just
classes, and if so, what the best way of specifying them is. Do we always
stick to the resource-form of a class?
<pre>
class { foo: stage => pre }
</pre>
Should you be able to declare it when the class is defined?
<pre>
class foo stage pre { ... }
</pre>
Is there some other way?
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Feature #2658: Add puppet "run stages"
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2658
Author: Robin Bowes
Status: Needs design decision
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: Luke Kanies
Category:
Target version:
Affected version: 0.25.0
Keywords:
Branch:
Sometimes, there are certain specific manifests that you want to run before all
others.
Similarly, there may be others that you want to run after all others have
finished.
I'd like to see support for this added to puppet.
By default, all manifests would be "run" in the "main" stage. However, all
types would support an additional parameter: stage => 'pre' or stage => 'post.
Anything labelled as "pre" would be executed first, followed by anything
labelled "main" or with no explicit stage, then finally anything labelled
"post".
The stages could even be user-defined by specifying them in some config file,
eg:
[stages]
default=main
1=pre
2=main
3=post
Any support for this sort of idea?
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