Okay, I have my first clue:
# THIS FILE IS MANAGED BY PUPPET
# /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/production/modules/hosts/templates/
trusty/etc/hosts.erb
This file does not exist....nice!
On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 10:06:20 AM UTC-7, Aaron Lager wrote:
>
> @John, the host modules are for maintaining the /etc/hosts files. On
> windows it's located in %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> ghoneycutt-hosts is the module I'm trying to use.
>
> I've tried with the hash both ways:
> {"10.150.28.8":"puppet.mybluebolt.com"}
> or
> {"puppet.mybluebolt.com":"10.150.28.8"}
>
> The result is the same, the file is reverted back to :
> #
> # THIS FILE IS MANAGED BY PUPPET
> #
> /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/production/modules/hosts/templates/trusty/etc/hosts.erb
> #
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 10.150.28.4 AVC2-WUS1-APP01.AVC2-WUS1-CS1.d6.internal.cloudapp.net
> AVC2-WUS1-APP01
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
>
>
> Is there a log file somewhere that might hint at what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>
>
>>>
>>
>> I cannot say exactly what you're doing wrong, as I am uncertain what
>> "the" /etc/hosts modules are, or why anyone would need more than one such
>> module. You clearly are not talking about the standard Host resource type,
>> as it has no parameter named "host_entries".
>>
>> Inasmuch as the Host resource uses the hostname as its identifier, I
>> suspect the wanted hash will have hostnames as keys. I would not be
>> surprised to hear that the expected form of the hash was something like
>> this (YAML):
>>
>> 'hosts::hostentries':
>> 'puppet.mybluebolt.com':
>> 'ip': '10.150.28.8'
>> 'host_aliases': 'puppet' # optional; may also be an array
>>
>> That matches up with the underlying Host resource type
>> <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#host>, and it
>> is the form that would be used with the standard create_resources()
>> function
>> <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/function.html#createresources>.
>>
>> This is all an educated guess, however, inasmuch as I don't know what
>> module you are in fact using. Any way around, I'm sure PL would appreciate
>> feedback about the shortcomings of its documentation on this point. They
>> might pick it up from your post here, as several employees do participate,
>> but you cannot rely on that.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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