That'll work fine for now, but if you throw everything into site.pp it can become difficult to manage and inflexible pretty quickly. Have a look at this part of the docs:
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/modules1.html Specifically from the "The End of One Huge Manifest" heading. Andy On Friday, 5 December 2014 13:45:23 UTC, Brantley Hobbs wrote: > > Since it's such a core component, I have added the type you suggested to > my site.pp manifest and it works just fine. Is there a better place for it? > > Thanks for your help! > > On Friday, December 5, 2014 7:55:46 AM UTC-5, Andy Taylor wrote: >> >> Hiera is just a source of data - you need to have Puppet >> manifests/modules which interpet the data and act on it. >> >> You can achieve installation of packages from Hiera data by using defined >> types and the create_resources function: >> >> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/definedtypes.html >> >> https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#createresources >> >> Basically you need to create a defined type which includes a package >> resource. Once you've done that you can use the create_resources function >> to pass the Hiera data to the defined type and install the packages. >> >> The defined type would look something like this: >> >> define hiera::packages ( $ensure ) { >> >> package { $title: >> ensure => $ensure >> } >> >> } >> >> and then the create_resources call would look like this: >> >> $packages = hiera('packages') >> >> create_resources(hiera::packages, $packages) >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> Andy >> >> On Thursday, 4 December 2014 21:00:34 UTC, Brantley Hobbs wrote: >>> >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I'm very new to puppet. I have installed a puppet master which >>> successfully sets the IP address and manages sudo on a couple of nodes. >>> >>> I'm using Puppet 3.7 with Hiera, and so far I haven't had to write any >>> manifest files, apart from the one that pulls in Hiera. As far as I can >>> tell, this is a best practice. >>> >>> Now I would like to manage packages on my agents. I assume that in the >>> node specific Hiera file, I should be able do something like the following: >>> >>> packages: >>> apache2: >>> ensure: installed >>> >>> However, nothing gets installed. I know I'm taking too simplistic of an >>> approach, but I'm not sure where to start digging. Most things I've found >>> say that I need a "wrapper class" to read in the Hiera data and install the >>> packages. Is there no way to install packages purely from hiera? I've >>> found some modules that propose to do this, but so far I can't get them to >>> work. I'd like to do this without additional modules if possible; it seems >>> like a pretty basic operation. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Brantley Hobbs >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f0290ca9-ba55-4e96-8134-62d32808ac5a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
