On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Justin Lambert
<jlamb...@localmatters.com>wrote:
> I have just gotten to playing with this and am doing something wrong,
> probably very basic.
>
> On the puppetmaster (which for my testing is also the client) I have
> create_resources.rb in /var/lib/puppet/lib/puppet/parser/functions.
>
> I wrote a new ENC that will just output a very basic YAML to test this, the
> output is:
> classes:
> yumreposerver:
> yumreposerver::locations:
>
>
centos5:
> distro: centos
> version: 5.6
>
it should be something like:
yumreposerver:
instances:
centos5:
distro:
...
there is no yumreposerver parameter in the yum server class, only an
instances parameter
>
> In my modules directory I have yumreposerver/manifests/locations.pp:
> class yumreposerver::locations ( $instances = {} )
> {
> create_resources('yumreposerver::location', $instances)
> }
>
> yumreposerver/manifests/location.pp:
> define yumreposerver::location( $distro, $version ) {
> .....
> }
>
> puppet agent -t --noop returns:
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
> Invalid parameter yumreposerver::locations on node <name>
>
I agree that this is not a very clear error message, can you run with
--trace?
> Puppet version 2.6.9 on SL6.
>
> Any insight as to where I have gone wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> jl
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Justin Lambert
> <jlamb...@localmatters.com>wrote:
>
>> This looks exactly like what I was looking for, thank you. This might be
>> worth mentioning on the ENC page so people like myself can find it easier.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Dan Bode <d...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi J,
>>>
>>> The create resources function was created to serve this exact use case
>>> (the README actually mentions your exact use case :) )
>>>
>>> https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-create_resources
>>>
>>> This will require 2.6.5 or higher to work (That is the first version
>>> where ENC's support param classes)
>>>
>>> The function was also merged into core in 2.7.0
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Justin Lambert <
>>> jlamb...@localmatters.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have recently started moving the config of our puppet hosts out of the
>>>> nodes files and into an ENC so they can be managed through a web UI by
>>>> someone with less technical experience without the fear of a typo causing a
>>>> failure of all catalogs to compile. As a result, I have been looking at
>>>> which modules need to be rewritten to support this. The problem I have run
>>>> into is, how do you do something such as add multiple virtual hosts using
>>>> the YAML output of an ENC?
>>>>
>>>> I currently have something like:
>>>>
>>>> node 'web01.company.com' {
>>>> apache::virtualhost { 'site1': location => '/hosted/site1', url => '
>>>> http://site1.com' }
>>>> apache::virtualhost { 'site2': location => '/hosted/site2', url => '
>>>> http://site2.com' }
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> This uses 'define apache::virtualhost' in order to create multiple
>>>> sites, works fine. The YAML from an ENC (referencing
>>>> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html) doesn't look to
>>>> support this kind of definition so I need to find an alternative. My next
>>>> thought was that I can pass parameters to a parameterized class. No love
>>>> there as you can't instantiate a class multiple times with different
>>>> parameters. How are others solving this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> jl
>>>>
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