On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Michael DeHaan <mich...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Douglas Garstang > <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Does switching to external nodes require a forklift approach? >>>> >>>> The other day, I specified an external node script in puppet.conf, and >>>> puppet complained about every single node that wasn't handled by the >>>> external script. It would be nice (and more realistic) to be able to >>>> cut one node over at a time. Is this possible? >>> >>> Absolutely. >>> My external node script just returns the default config for any node it >>> can't find a specific config for. >> >> That's not going to work. When the node isn't defined as an external >> node, I want it to use the node manifest file, not a default. If I was >> going to start using external nodes, some nodes would be external and >> some nodes would not be external, until they where all converted. It >> looks like while this was the case, nothing would work. > > As I understood things, external nodes is supposed to work as an > overlay on top of site.pp > > Is this not working if you just return an empty list of > classes/variables for a node? > > IIRC this works this way today -- let us know if there's a problem with it.
Sorry, I really don't follow you. The external node is specified in the puppet.conf file. Doesn't that mean ALL nodes are run through it??? 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
