----- "Thomas Bellman" <bell...@nsc.liu.se> wrote:
> On 2010-05-19 11:59, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>
> > it's not exactly your use case, but there's a lot of milage to be
> > had by just creating
> > a query interface for puppet into your customer db and using that..
> >
> > pseudo code alert:
> >
> > node foo {
> > include virtual_web_hosts
> > }
> >
> > class virtual_web_hosts {
> > $websites = websites_for($fqdn)
> >
> > create_node_vhosts{$websites: }
> > }
> >
> > inside your define you use a query_cust_db function to pull out
> > properties for each vhost.
>
> Sure, but then you don't really have any need for the external
> node classifier, since then you can just as well, and much easier,
> write 'node default { include virtual_web_hosts }' in site.pp...
>
> I can certainly see the utility of external nodes, even with today's
> limitations, but there *are* severe limitations, and in many cases it
> is a huge overkill. For the systems I manage, I can't really find
> anything that external nodes solves that I can't do just as easy with
> the normal Puppet DSL, especially now that we have regexp nodes.
I don't use them either, my nodes are very varied and it just isnt worth the
effort
--
R.I.Pienaar
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