On May 2, 2010, at 9:38 PM, linuxdatacenter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just want to know how you use puppet to cover a scenario where you
> have a production and backup datacenter. Both environments should be
> similar but not identical (just a dumb example - your ntp setup is
> probably different in each). I think it's desirable to have just one
> implementation of modules and classes shared among production and
> backup so as not to make changes in 2 places which is error prone.
> 
> I've got this setup covered by having a different domain name in each
> environment and use the ${domainname} fact to distinguish between
> them.
> 
> So for ntp I just have:
> 
> file {"/etc/ntp.conf":
>      ....
>     source => puppet://${puppetmaster}/ntp.conf.${domainname}
> }
> 
> I realize this setup is kinda primitive ;-) but right now it works
> fine.
> I just wonder how you guys have it set up - maybe there's some more
> efficient and elegant way.
> 
> -Regards

I actually just set the ntpd server to be a local server name and let DNS sort 
it out using the search domain.
-Patrick

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