I was reading through the doc''s last night and made a bunch of notes.
One of the things that I wanted to learn more about was this statement:
As Puppet matures, it
expected that the file element will be used less and less to
manage content, and instead native elements will be used to do so.
Can someone please explain what this means, what the plan is, and what type of
concept you are going for? Will there be some sort of backwards compatibility
built in so that a large site could transition from the "file" element
to whatever is meant by "native elements"?
Thanks!
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On 7/3/07, Brent Clements <brent_puppet_ml@yahoo.com> wrote:> > I was reading through the doc''s last night and made a bunch of notes. One of > the things that I wanted to learn more about was this statement: > > > As Puppet matures, it expected that the file element will be used less and > less to manage content, and instead native elements will be used to do so. > > Can someone please explain what this means, what the plan is, and what type > of concept you are going for? Will there be some sort of backwards > compatibility built in so that a large site could transition from the "file" > element to whatever is meant by "native elements"? >To try and give Luke a break The idea is that instead of building a static file that contains the data you want and then copying it with a file command you would instead manage the file with say an internal method. So if we were talking about iptables... instead of say copying /etc/sysconfig/iptables you would use a method that says you want these ports open, these ports closed, and you want to log this port. The method would then write out the file that does that. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
Ah sweet, that''s what I assumed, but you know what they say about assumption. BC. ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> To: Puppet User Discussion <puppet-users@madstop.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:40:17 PM Subject: Re: [Puppet-users] Can someone explain this statement? On 7/3/07, Brent Clements <brent_puppet_ml@yahoo.com> wrote:> > I was reading through the doc''s last night and made a bunch of notes. One of > the things that I wanted to learn more about was this statement: > > > As Puppet matures, it expected that the file element will be used less and > less to manage content, and instead native elements will be used to do so. > > Can someone please explain what this means, what the plan is, and what type > of concept you are going for? Will there be some sort of backwards > compatibility built in so that a large site could transition from the "file" > element to whatever is meant by "native elements"? >To try and give Luke a break The idea is that instead of building a static file that contains the data you want and then copying it with a file command you would instead manage the file with say an internal method. So if we were talking about iptables... instead of say copying /etc/sysconfig/iptables you would use a method that says you want these ports open, these ports closed, and you want to log this port. The method would then write out the file that does that. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php _______________________________________________ Puppet-users mailing list Puppet-users@madstop.com https://mail.madstop.com/mailman/listinfo/puppet-users