Thanks John, My case is a little bit different. Because my webserver might need the IP address of the mysql node, and before mysql node is deployed and configured, it's IP address is not known.
-Yushu +-------------------------------------------------+ | Yushu Yao | Ph:1-510-486-4690 | | Lawrence Berkeley National Lab | 1 Cyclotron Road | Berkeley CA 94720 - USA +-------------------------------------------------+ On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote: > > > On May 24, 12:56 pm, Yushu Yao <y...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > Thanks Patrick! > > > > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On May 24, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Yushu Yao wrote: > > > > > > (For dependency reason I have to apply the above 3 service sets in 3 > > > separate steps, and webserver need proxy, and gmond need webserver, for > > > example) > > > > > So, why can't you just create three classes, one for each service. > Then > > > have each class require the one before it so the dependencies happen in > the > > > right order? > > > > Because I have inter-node dependency. I.e. webserver might depend on > mysql > > server that's on another node (puppet client), while mysql server at the > > same time need proxy server. > > > > Sorry if I'm being too confusing :-) > > > Do not confuse functional dependency with configuration dependency. > Only the latter need affect your Puppet manifests. > > For example, although your webserver may not function correctly until > your mysql server is configured and running, you can probably apply > the configuration it's going to need whether the mysql server is up > and configured or not. Dependencies matter to Puppet exactly to the > extent that they affect whether and how configurations can be applied > to particular nodes. More often than not, your manifests don't need > to do anything special about inter-node dependencies (beyond > specifying each node's individual configuration). > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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-users@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.
