There are many reasons... e.g. if you dont want to allow other people access to your manifests, or you want a web gui to manage your nodes (e.g. foreman) etc
maybe you nodes follow a name standards (which should define your host names etc) and probably I've missed many other good arguments. Ohad On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch> > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > >> I'm no expert at external nodes, so I went and read: > >> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ExternalNodes > >> > >> That doc still really doesn't say exactly what external nodes are. > >> It's a way of storing node info in an external source such as MySQL or > >> LDAP, right? > > > > or a yaml file, a csv file, <whatever you can imagine, can be read by a > > script and can be revision controlled> > > > > cheers pete > > I don't get it. What's the benefit of putting your nodes in a yaml > file or a csv file rather than a puppet node file? > > Doug. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
