It's usually much easier to use DHCP for desktops, and some servers. Also, the computer will (usually) need an ip address before the first puppet run.
On May 22, 2010, at 1:59 PM, andreash wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your input. I had already thought about that, but initially > wanted to be able to set the ip addresses using puppet. Or is that a > bad idea? > > Cheers, > > Andreas. > > On 22 Mai, 20:42, Benoit Cattié <pup...@benoit.cattie.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> You can get the ipadress with facter (and use it in your puppet classes, >> templates ...) >> >> Benoit >> >> Le 22/05/2010 11:08, andreash a écrit : >> >> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> naturally, there are many places in a typical puppet manifest where >>> one needs to use IP addresses: >> >>> * network config >>> * Listen directives in server daemons >>> * hosts file >>> * ... >> >>> I was wondering if there is some 'best practice' way of specifying the >>> IP addresses of all the hosts in one place and then using these >>> variables whenever necessary? (BTW, are there global variables in >>> puppet?) >> >>> Thanks for your insight, >> >>> Andreas >> >> -- >> 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 >> athttp://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. > -- 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.
