This looks nice. Although I think that for the usecase you are
presenting with nagios resources it will be much easier to use
puppetdbquery[1]. The script you wrote might have other usecases. Nice
work again :)
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Nikola
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 02:56:18PM -0700, Daniele Sluijters wrote:
> Good news everyone,
>
> After about 4hrs of food, beer and code Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden (ekohl
> on Github) and I are intoxicated to release puppetdb-stencil.
> Puppetdb-stencil is designed to render resource types based on a template.
>
> The canonical example of this is the nagios types in Puppet:
>
> $ cd examples && python ../puppetdb-stencil.py nagios_host nagios_hostgroup
> define host {
> host_name node1.example.com
> hostgroups +mysql
> use mysql
> alias MySQL Cluster node node1.example.com
> address node1.example.com
> }
> [..]
>
> define hostgroup {
> hostgroup_name mysql
> alias MySQL Cluster 1
> }
> [..]
>
> On a PuppetDB with 600+ machines and 900+ host groups generating the files
> for these types takes about 1s in total.
>
> Because of the templating this principle can be applied to any resource
> available through PuppetDB as long as a template is created for that type.
> Templating is done with the Jinja2 library allowing for inheritance and
> many other advanced templating features.
>
> This work has been inspired by the work done by eBay/Marktplaats and Github.
>
> You can find puppetdb-stencil at:
> https://github.com/daenney/puppetdb-stencil.
>
> We expect to shortly add:
> * packaging and availability through PyPi
> * additional configuration switches to fully configure connecting to
> PuppetDB
> * allow for an arbitrary query to be passed in to the resource request
> * allow to specify a file to which the output will be written instead of
> stdout
> * tests, Travis integration and the works
>
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> Daniele Sluijters
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