I wonder if the nil value is not being accepted as 'being passed' - can you
populate the nil value and try again?
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> ----- Luke Bigum <luke.bi...@lmax.com> wrote:
> > On 18/05/12 13:46, Dan White wrote:
> > > Ah, Gary ! Just the brain I wish to pick ! :)
> > >
> > > Thanks for the response. It makes sense.
> > > However, if I perceive this properly, it would provide an
> All-Or-Nothing implementation of users.
> > >
> > > I am looking for for a way to have a master list of users in hiera and
> then realize/instantiate a group-keyed-subset of the master list on each
> node.
> > >
> > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
> elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> > > Bill Waterson (Calvin& Hobbes)
> > >
> >
> > Why not use a define to wrap the virtualised declaration of your users,
> > or tried and doesn't work? Theoretically like this:
> >
> > --------------------
> > define virtualise_user ($name, $uid, ...) {
> > @user { $name:
> > uid => $uid,
> > }
> > }
> >
> > $all_users = hiera_hash('users')
> >
> > create_resources('virtualise_user', $all_users)
> > --------------------
> >
>
> Closer, but no cigar yet !
>
> user.pp:
> -------------------------
> define add_user ( $username, $uid, $ingroups, $info ) {
> <clip>
> }
>
> define add_virtual_user ( $v_username, $v_uid, $v_ingroups, $v_info ) {
> @add_user { "${name}":
> username => "${v_username}",
> uid => "${v_uid}",
> ingroups => "${v_ingroups}",
> info => "${v_info}",
> }
> }
> -------------------------
> /etc/puppet/hierdata/common.yaml:
> -------------------------
> users:
> beast:
> v_username : beast
> v_uid : 6666
> v_ingroups :
> v_info : Let's see if this works
> boo:
> v_username : boo
> v_uid : 6667
> v_ingroups :
> v_info : Let's see if this works also
>
> -------------------------
>
> And if I say:
> hiera users -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml
>
> I get:
> {"beast"=>{"v_info"=>"Let's see if this works", "v_username"=>"beast",
> "v_ingroups"=>nil, "v_uid"=>6666}, "boo"=>{"v_info"=>"Let's see if this
> works also", "v_username"=>"boo", "v_ingroups"=>nil, "v_uid"=>6667}}
>
> Which is out of order, but everything is there. That's how hashes are
> supposed to work !
>
> But when I try to run the catalog with
> $the_users = hiera('users') or $the_users = hiera_hash('users')
> followed by :
> create_resources ( 'add_virtual_user', $the_users )
> I get:
> Must pass a parameter or all necessary values at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/puppetmaster-node.pp:15 on node
> puppetmaster.foo.org
>
>
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
>
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