Re: [Puppet Users] Staging content from modules for temporary use by resources

2013-04-02 Thread Keith Burdis
Indeed, but other than saving disk space, I have found running multiple instances from the same installation more trouble than it is worth. Please do share your pattern though as I am sure there are others who disagree and I may change my mind :-) On 30 March 2013 10:20, Brian Lalor

Re: [Puppet Users] Staging content from modules for temporary use by resources

2013-03-30 Thread Brian Lalor
On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Keith Burdis ke...@burdis.org wrote: Today I started using Jordan Sissel's fpm [1] to build multiple rpms for each tomcat instance with a different prefix - something like: This seems like a good opportunity to use CATALINA_BASE for multiple Tomcat instances per

[Puppet Users] Staging content from modules for temporary use by resources

2013-03-28 Thread Bruno Harbulot
Hello, I would like to find a few to use files available in a module for the execution of a particular resource, without having to stage the file explicitly onto the client and possibly having to clean it up afterwards. (This could also apply to content coming from templates.) The use-cases I

Re: [Puppet Users] Staging content from modules for temporary use by resources

2013-03-28 Thread Keith Burdis
I have been using the file, exec approach for my modules but transferring big zip or tar files is a pain because they take up space, as you say, and sometimes the transfer times out when the files are really big. Today I started using Jordan Sissel's fpm [1] to build multiple rpms for each tomcat