Puppet users - Jul 2011 - ENC to install multiple instances of an app on the same node

I''m a puppet n00b trying to write an ENC, and I''m a bit
stumped.
Here''s the scenario:

I have an app which is started via inittab, and a parameterized class
which accepts several arguments (inittab label, log dir, version, etc)
which it uses to ensure that the app is installed, that certain
directories are created, inittab entries are added, etc. This app has
several instances, each of which is deployed to a group of hosts. Some
of these groups of hosts overlap, meaning that multiple instances can
run on a given host. My dilemma is that this makes returning the
proper YAML from a perl script impractical as the class names are the
keys. So when multiple instances of an app need to be installed on the
same node... well, you can''t. Key names must be unique.

A more elegant way must exist to do what I need to do, I''m just not
seeing it. Any ideas?

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On Jul 5, 11:45 pm, Erik <paleh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I''m a puppet n00b trying to write an ENC, and I''m a bit
stumped.
> Here''s the scenario:
>
> I have an app which is started via inittab, and a parameterized class
> which accepts several arguments (inittab label, log dir, version, etc)
> which it uses to ensure that the app is installed, that certain
> directories are created, inittab entries are added, etc. This app has
> several instances, each of which is deployed to a group of hosts. Some
> of these groups of hosts overlap, meaning that multiple instances can
> run on a given host. My dilemma is that this makes returning the
> proper YAML from a perl script impractical as the class names are the
> keys. So when multiple instances of an app need to be installed on the
> same node... well, you can''t. Key names must be unique.
>
> A more elegant way must exist to do what I need to do, I''m just
not
> seeing it. Any ideas?
Hmm... This seems to have been already addressed in a reply posted
almost at the same as I sent this message:

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/d9fe1204cfbffb0b

For some reason I did not notice the original post when I was browsing
the list via the web interface. Sorry for the additional noise, and
thanks to Dan for his reply in that thread.

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