On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Ramin K <ramin.khat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tech documentation is littered with examples that illustrate exactly > one thing and call it day. 99% of the power of any system comes from > learning to combine multiple functions. I chose that example because > it illustrates regex, using regex in a node as well as case > statements, adding classes based on case statements, setting a default > in a case statement, and should have the OP considering that Puppet > can do more then 1:1 mapping. Getting past the 1:1 mapping idea seems > to take most traditional sysadmins or non CS types longer. Simply, > demonstrating possibilities was more important than least keystrokes. > Also my example avoids first match problems. Yours does as well > assuming it was clear that the first statement *had* to be first. That > is probably the number #2 mistake of documentation, illustrating a > concept without exploring the assumptions of the example. > > Ramin > Don't know about the OP, but it made me feel like an idiot. Been using Puppet for years and never even considered using regex in my node files. It would make life so much simpler for some things.
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