Hi all, I would like to propose a new feature for puppet master: External Environment Locator (EEL)
The main objective would be to make locating puppet environment locations more flexible compared to directory environments. Basic functionality would facilitate usage of external program to convert environment name to corresponding path (directory or environment configuration file). To be able to achieve this, two new settings would need to be introduced: 1. env_terminus - possibla values: 'directory' and 'exec', 'directory' being the default one (retains current directory environments functionality) 2. external_env - path to executable, if 'exec' is used in the setting above Sample configuration: ----------------------------------------- [master] env_terminus = exec external_env = /path/to/external/environment/locator.sh ------------------------------------------ EEL (locator.sh) requirements would be defined with the following specification: It takes one argument: - requested environment name (once node and ENC agree on node environment) It returns one path, to directory or to file: - if returned path is a directory, that is used as environment path, seeking environment.conf inside it, or using defaults (based on returned path) if not found; - if returned path is a file, then that is treated as path to environment.conf. which should be opened and parsed for additional environment configuration. If file does not exist, or some settings are not set, then dirname() is used to determine path to environment and defaults are based on that value (moduledir and manifest) After that, all the normal rules apply. I would like to hear your opinion about this, and whether this would be useful for you. Best regards, b. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/13559aa4-2760-43dc-a619-26e27630a8b5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
