[Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-26 Thread alaric
Wow, This has all been great information! Thanks to everyone who posted! -a On Oct 26, 12:38 am, Patrick wrote: > On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:55 PM, donavan wrote: > > > On Oct 25, 11:13 am, "R.I.Pienaar" wrote: > >> In this scenario puppetd will use the old catalog BUT it will still fetch > >> fil

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread Patrick
On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:55 PM, donavan wrote: > On Oct 25, 11:13 am, "R.I.Pienaar" wrote: >> In this scenario puppetd will use the old catalog BUT it will still fetch >> files with source from the master. > > This is also possible during your VCSs 'update' if /etc/puppet is a > workdir. This came

[Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread donavan
On Oct 25, 8:12 am, Alaric wrote: >  Are there any pro/cons to using templates exclusively? > Besides the already mentioned there are some security issues with using the file server from puppet. Richard Crowley covered this a bit in his puppetcamp talk[1]. He also distributes all of his configs

[Puppet Users] Re: Templates VS static files

2010-10-25 Thread donavan
On Oct 25, 11:13 am, "R.I.Pienaar" wrote: > In this scenario puppetd will use the old catalog BUT it will still fetch > files with source from the master. This is also possible during your VCSs 'update' if /etc/puppet is a workdir. This came up at puppet camp, and I think two groups mentioned see