On 5/5/2014 7:32 AM, Alex Scoble wrote:
If you are trying to follow Puppet Labs recommended best practices, it's
definitely a moving target.
I find it best not to change my workflow or methodology until it makes
sense on my system regardless of what the community or even Puppet Labs
has said.
A few of the things I have completely ignored,
- inheriting params.pp class to get local variables
- ENC
- parameterized classes
- 99.8% of Forge modules
- data bindings
A few of the things I do/have done that Puppet no longer recommends or
has never recommended,
- use stages
- include subclasses to change behavior of modules, class
postfix::config::relay inherits postfix::config {
- specific hiera calls
- used RVM to run my Puppet master
On the flip side I did have a 2000+ line commit last year when I
switched over to role/profile. However the massive benefits in
organization (at least for me) were worth the time investment. At some
point I'll probably bite the parameterized classes/data binding bullet
as well.
I ran across a paper recently with the following quote. I think keeping
this definition of Engineering in mind would be a good thing for the
Puppet community instead of searching for the elusive best solution.
http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=24965&postid=2968043
"Engineering has no hint of the absolute, the deterministic, the
guaranteed, the true. Instead it fairly reeks of the uncertain, the
provisional and the doubtful. The engineer instinctively recognizes this
and calls his ad hoc method “doing the best you can with what you’ve
got,” “finding a seat-of-the-pants solution,” or just “muddling
through”. (Koen, 1985, p. 23)."
Ramin
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