[Puppet Users] inherited roles

2014-06-04 Thread Stuart Cracraft
What's the best way to do inherited roles for servers? chef seems to excel at this whereas in Puppet it is wordy (at best). -- 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

Re: [Puppet Users] inherited roles

2014-06-04 Thread Robin Bowes
What do you mean by inherited roles? R. On 4 June 2014 23:02, Stuart Cracraft smcracr...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best way to do inherited roles for servers? chef seems to excel at this whereas in Puppet it is wordy (at best). -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: [Puppet Users] inherited roles

2014-06-04 Thread Stuart Cracraft
http://blog.brattyredhead.com/blog/2011/11/19/puppet-for-chef-users-part-2-when-is-a-node-a/ may help. Perhaps the choice of words was wrong. The issue is how a node inherits multiple roles. I would assume from basic class syntax one could just do a::b::c etc to pull stuff in from subclassing

Re: [Puppet Users] inherited roles

2014-06-04 Thread Felix Frank
On 06/05/2014 01:28 AM, Stuart Cracraft wrote: I would assume from basic class syntax one could just do a::b::c etc to pull stuff in from subclassing and roll it up to the equivalent of chef roles. Hi, I suggest that you would be Doing It Wrong then. The author of the blogpost you linked has

Re: [Puppet Users] inherited roles

2014-06-04 Thread Robin Bowes
The recommended puppet approach is the role/profile/module pattern. Here's the blog post that defined this: http://www.craigdunn.org/2012/05/239/ R. On 5 June 2014 00:40, Felix Frank felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de wrote: On 06/05/2014 01:28 AM, Stuart Cracraft wrote: I would assume from