Puppet users - Jul 2009 - Recursively templating files in a directory

Suppose I have 100 files distributed recursively:

file { "/var/sample":
                source => "puppet:///files/sample",
                ensure => directory,
                recurse => true
        }

What I''d like to do is have all files inside the directory be
templated:

file { "/var/sample":
                content =>
template("/var/lib/puppet/files/sample"),
                ensure => directory,
                recurse => true
        }

This attempt doesn''t work (I''m running 0.24), and I
don''t want to specify
100 separate file definitions in my manifest. What''s the right approach
to
recursively templating files?

Thanks,
Pete

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Pete Emerson wrote:
> Suppose I have 100 files distributed recursively:
> 
> file { "/var/sample":
>                 source => "puppet:///files/sample",
>                 ensure => directory,
>                 recurse => true
>         }
> 
> What I''d like to do is have all files inside the directory be
templated:
> 
> file { "/var/sample":
>                 content =>
template("/var/lib/puppet/files/sample"),
>                 ensure => directory,
>                 recurse => true
>         }
> 
> This attempt doesn''t work (I''m running 0.24), and I
don''t want to
> specify 100 separate file definitions in my manifest. What''s the
right
> approach to recursively templating files?
The simplest approach would be a define:

define templated_sample() {
	file { "/var/sample/${name}":
		content => template("sample/${name}");
	}
}

and use an array:

templated_sample{["file1","file2","dir/file3"]:}

Since functions are evaluated on the server, you can create the array 
programatically from the list of templates:

$files = split("\0", generate("find",
"/var/lib/puppet/files/sample",
"-type", "f", "-print0"))

You''d need another define+array for the directories. But
that''s just
more of the same...

Regards, DavidS

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