Fair enough. It's good to know just in case something can be done. In this case, I don't think there's much of a choice.
However, if it is a competing product, I don't think that the PuppetDB project would reject a PR for support for your internal project. It might be faster than getting approval from on high! Thanks, Trevor On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Johnson Earls <darkfoxpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Trevor: PostgreSQL is considered a competing product. We're not allowed > to use competing products without getting approval from the corporate > information security group, legal, marketing, and a high level corporate > officer (I don't remember how high off the top of my head, but at least 4 > levels above my manager), and it's a process that takes months to go > through. > > On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 9:50:18 AM UTC-8, Trevor Vaughan wrote: >> >> Hi Johnson, >> >> Do you have any information on why PostgreSQL is taboo? It might help to >> justify supporting additional back-end databases. >> >> To solve your exported resources problem, you can use this as an example >> https://github.com/simp/pupmod-simp-ssh/blob/master/ >> lib/puppet/parser/functions/ssh_global_known_hosts.rb. >> >> Now, be aware that this will *not* synchronize between multiple servers >> but, if you have a single master, it will work just fine. Alternatively, if >> you have a shared filesystem it will also work. >> >> We're working toward revamping these types of items to use a shared >> synchronization system but it's not high priority at this time since most >> places can use PuppetDB. >> >> A better bet might be to take this snippet and turn it into something >> that writes to a DB that you control and then have a Hiera backend that >> feeds your your data as collected from that backend on a regular basis. >> >> In Puppet functions, you have the entire catalog at your disposal and can >> do with the data what you will. >> >> Good Luck, >> >> Trevor >> >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Johnson Earls <darkfo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I was just wondering - has anyone come across a plugin or something that >>> would allow the use of exported resources in Puppet 4.x *without* using >>> PuppetDB? The company I work for has declared PostgreSQL taboo within the >>> corporate network and so I cannot run PuppetDB, and the lack of exported >>> resources is really starting to grate. I'm hoping someone has seen >>> something out there that can help solve this for me :) >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> - Johnson >>> >>> -- >>> 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...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>> gid/puppet-users/95a0f132-7b41-4158-af41-8a9785646aa8%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/95a0f132-7b41-4158-af41-8a9785646aa8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Trevor Vaughan >> Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc >> (410) 541-6699 x788 <(410)%20541-6699> >> >> -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- >> > -- > 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/7966276a-e6d6-4447-b2d3-6654667fd1e3%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/7966276a-e6d6-4447-b2d3-6654667fd1e3%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 x788 -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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/CANs%2BFoXJZ8ryw47xdo6KR%3D04%3Dvz5SBHQy5B40VRaBg8z0uHcbQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
