Wout wrote:
> On Oct 8, 10:38 am, David Schmitt <da...@dasz.at> wrote:
>> While it may be quite an initial implementation hump, it will probably
>> save you many headaches down the line if you look into using an external
>> node classifier. There you can maintain your system's and architecture's
>> information in a format of your choosing and prepare the data for
>> puppet's consumption on a need-to-know basis.
>>
>> See the wiki for more 
>> information:http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ExternalNodes
> 
> Thanks for the fast reply :) Creating a shell script to produce a YAML
> output with (only) the information that node needs looks very
> interesting. Too bad you cannot define resources for a specific node,
> but I do not think this will be necessary in my setup.


This is a common "problem" with external nodes, but that can mostly be 
worked around by including the hostname as class and using that to 
include manual overrides.

If you need even more dynamic stuff, get Volcane's extlookup() function: 
http://nephilim.ml.org/~rip/puppet/extlookup.rb


Regards, DavidS

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