Hey Nick, Thank you for the reply. I'll take a look at the defaults.rb file and see what I can make of it. The explanation regarding the "core group" settings is most helpful and makes perfect sense.
Again, thanks for the informative links and the info. Cheers, Mike On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 1:20:08 PM UTC-7, Nick Fagerlund wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 12:38:58 PM UTC-7, Mike Reed wrote: >> >> My question is where do these parameters and values come from? I've >> taken a look at my puppet.conf file... > > > Defaults! Even if you only SET a few settings in puppet.conf, all of the > POSSIBLE settings still have values. These default values are set in a file > called defaults.rb, which is part of Puppet's code. See it here: > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/defaults.rbOr you > can see the config reference at > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html --- that > explains most of the default values. > > You'll notice that many settings are set *in terms of* other settings, so > that you end up only really having to set a small core group of settings. > > What is that small core group? Well... that's kind of tricky to tease out, > actually. The historical context is that we've tended to make every global > constant in Puppet's code into a configurable setting, and the result is > that we have over 200 of them. We know that's a problem; a lot of the work > we're doing these days can be summarized as "reduce configuration, make > things more knowable." But once you add a configurable knob, someone might > start using it, and removing it becomes a lot harder than not having put it > in would have been. > > But the list of the most important settings here ( > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/configuring.html#puppets-settings) is a > good place to start. You won't need to know much more than that for a > while. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/s2yDN87HwEoJ. 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.
