The recommended puppet approach is the role/profile/module pattern.
Here's the blog post that defined this:
http://www.craigdunn.org/2012/05/239/
R.
On 5 June 2014 00:40, Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 01:28 AM, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
> > I would assume from basic class syntax one could just do a::b::c etc
> > to pull stuff in from
> > subclassing and roll it up to the equivalent of chef roles.
>
> Hi,
>
> I suggest that you would be Doing It Wrong then.
>
> The author of the blogpost you linked has apparently inherited a Puppet
> code base that follows a lot of questionable practices. Or perhaps he
> was just confused by the node concepts that are absent from chef. What
> he failed to realize is that a node in Puppet is exactly what he
> describes as a "node in chef, unlike in Puppet".
>
> Basically, what you want to do is the same he describes for chef.
>
> node my.fqdn.org {
> include role::webserver
> }
>
> class role::webserver {
> include profile::base
> include profile::webserver
> }
>
> class profile::webserver {
> include profile::apache
> include profile::openssl
> ...
> }
>
> It is unclear why the author is so obsessed with nodes - the primary
> form of expressing such relationships is indeed the class.
>
> HTH,
> Felix
>
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