Puppet users - Feb 2010 - Questions about the module areas "client" and "services"

Hello all.


I''m a little confused about the purpose of the modules defined under
/services and /clients, as outlined in the Puppet best practice document. If
I understand correctly these modules are meant for collecting general
modules (found in /modules) to make up a infratructure services such as
webserver. Does this mean that one would typically have a module s_webserver
which import modules from the /modules area, and have the s_webserver module
included in the node definition for myweb.example.com? Or are these modules
more directly connected to individiual servers, so that one would have a
module "s_myweb" which is included by the server
"myweb.example.com"?

How would one typically structure modules related to specific third party
applications running on our server? If my Webshere Application server are
running applications with specific linux configuration requirements, would I
model the entire server inside a single module under /services (or
/clients), or should I include the different modules needed inside the node
definition for that server?


Regards,
Kenneth

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