On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Paul Lathrop <paul.lath...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> >>> Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server.
>> This
>> >>> won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it?
>> >>
>> >> it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node
>> >> classifier is called ;)
>> >
>> > Whoa. This should be called out in the external node docs, as I simply
>> > assumed this happened after the node classifier is called.
>>
>> +1000
>>
>>
> I did some tests as I didn't quite trust this :) and it's absolutely true.
>
> So my plan is for my external node provider
>

do you mean node classifier? Are you using provider in the traditional
Puppet sense?


> to redirect clients that haven't provided facts to a "bootstrap"
> environment that contains the bare minimum facts that are required to work
> out what environment they should be in, and then my puppetd wrapper scripts
> to detect that a bootstrap run has occurred (probably a file set to be
> present on the bootstrap run and absent on all other runs) and re-run.
>

Nigel, I think this answers your question:

write a fact that returns the current environment.

during provisioning, set environment to 'bootstrap'.

in your classifier, set a parameter called $puppet_environment  that is used
in your puppet class to update environment in puppet.conf.


> How could we achieve the same functionality within puppetd itself? I can't
> think of a way this could be done right now with it running as a daemon.
>
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