On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Luke Kanies <[email protected]> writes: > > > External data (that is, data specified outside of Puppet manifests) seems > to > > keep coming up. > > If you forgive me banging my own drum, it isn't just /external/ data; > access > to data that puppet knows, like facts of other nodes, is equally valuable > in > some use cases. > > eg: "give me an array of fqdn facts for hosts including example::service" > thats already possible today with Foreman query interface. not only that, you can get a lot of data on all hosts(e.g. all of their facts, classes and external nodes parameters) which allow you to add additional logic into it (e.g. give me ip addresses and other custom facts of all hosts with class x and fact y). note that if you want the last option, it has to be done in a template, as puppet cant handle hashes (just yet). Ohad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
