[Puppet Users] Re: Best-practice way of handling IP addresses

2010-05-23 Thread andreash
, andreash wrote: Hi, thanks for your input. I had already thought about that, but initially wanted to be able to set the ip addresses using puppet. Or is that a bad idea? Hi, you should probably use DHCP static leases, but in situations where you can't, it is possible to create a define

[Puppet Users] Best-practice way of handling IP addresses

2010-05-22 Thread andreash
Hi, naturally, there are many places in a typical puppet manifest where one needs to use IP addresses: * network config * Listen directives in server daemons * hosts file * ... I was wondering if there is some 'best practice' way of specifying the IP addresses of all the hosts in one place and

[Puppet Users] Re: Best-practice way of handling IP addresses

2010-05-22 Thread andreash
it in your puppet classes, templates ...) Benoit Le 22/05/2010 11:08, andreash a écrit : Hi, naturally, there are many places in a typical puppet manifest where one needs to use IP addresses: * network config * Listen directives in server daemons * hosts file * ... I

[Puppet Users] getting started with puppet: overriding roles

2010-05-21 Thread andreash
hi there, i'm not sure as to how to call the subject of this post, as i'm totally new to puppet -- so please forgive me if this is misleading ... for my servers, i'm planning to do something like this (pseudo-code): class (?) base-config: include ntp::client include resolver ...