On Monday, December 22, 2014 9:27:47 AM UTC-6, Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm not sure if I'm thinking about the problem the wrong way, but I'm
> trying to design a way to have one directory of user information in hiera
> which feeds the creation of unix users as well as nagios contacts. I have a
> hiera data structure like this:
>
> unifiedusers:
> jon:
> nagiosuser: true
> comment: Jonathan
> gid: resnet
> uid: 56933
> sudo: true
> groups:
> - resnet
> - superadmins
> paul:
> nagiosuser: true
> comment: Paul
> gid: resnet
> uid: 23770
> sudo: true
> groups:
> - resnet
> - superadmins
> dave:
> nagiosuser: false
> comment: Dave
> gid: networks
> uid: 1234
> sudo: false
> groups:
> - resnet
>
> I have code that works well to create unix users & groups. I'm struggling
> more with nagios stuff. Ideally I want to end up with an array of usernames
> for whom nagiosuser==true. So my array @nagiosusers would contain ['jon',
> 'paul'] but not 'dave'. Is this possible?
>
>
Of course it's possible. Puppet has enough hooks that you can plug in any
kind of data transformation you want.
Puppet does not have a *direct* solution to this particular problem,
however. It would be cleanest to write a custom function to do what this
job, but it would be quicker to do it with an inline template (which you
can consider a proof of concept for that function) something like this:
$nagios_users_string = inline_template("<%= @unifiedusers.select { |k,
v| v['nagiosuser'] }.keys.join(',') %>")
$nagios_users = split($nagios_users_string, ',')
John
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