http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/msg/6432a6dd539b542f
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Ok, so am I getting 'DougBobBill' when I use $test_var =
> extlookup('testkey', '---', 'settings') on this file?
>
> ---
> testkey:
> - Doug
> - Bob
> - Bill
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It's an array, which can then be exploded into a whole set of package
>> resources with a single entry:
>> package {$default_packages:}
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Aaron Grewell
>>> <aaron.grew...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Example Config:
>>>> ---
>>>> :parser: YAML
>>>> :precedence:
>>>> - %{environment}/nodes/%{fqdn}
>>>> - %{environment}/nodes/cluster_%{cluster}
>>>> - %{environment}/nodes/site_%{site}
>>>> - %{environment}/nodes/default
>>>> :yaml:
>>>> :datadir: /usr/share/puppet/environments
>>>>
>>>> Example call:
>>>> $default_packages = extlookup('linux_default_packages')
>>>>
>>>> Given an environment called 'testing', cluster called 'cluster1', site
>>>> called 'site1' and a node called localhost.localdomain it will look for
>>>> variable 'linux_default_packages' in:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/share/puppet/environments/testing/localhost.localdomain.yaml
>>>> /usr/share/puppet/environments/testing/cluster_cluster1.yaml
>>>> /usr/share/puppet/environments/testing/site_site1.yaml
>>>> /usr/share/puppet/environments/testing/default.yaml
>>>>
>>>> In that order, which means you can set this at the default level, then
>>>> override at any lower level you like. Make sense?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Aaron, makes sense. I wasn't so interested in the defaulting behaviour,
>>> because you can do the same thing with extlookup itself with something like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> $ssh_idle_timeout = extlookup("SshIdleTimeout",
>>> extlookup("SshIdleTimeout", extlookup("SshIdleTimeout", ""
>>> ,"settings/nodes/_global"), "settings/nodes/${domain}"),
>>> "settings/nodes/${fqdn}")
>>>
>>> In fact, I haven't had a chance to think fully though it yet, but I think
>>> this implementation of extlookup actually removes functionality. By chaining
>>> extlookup() calls together like I have above you can determine what lookup
>>> order you want to use whenver you want, rather than having to rely on a
>>> centrally configured file.
>>>
>>> But... I was much more interested in what I thought was the possibility
>>> of storing complex YAML data and retrieving it with puppet. What does
>>> $linux_default_packages end up looking like? Is it a string? If it's a
>>> string, how do you parse it?
>>>
>>> I dunno... seems like all you can store in the yaml files is key/value
>>> pairs, which means it's no better than using a CSV file. No?
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
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>
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