Puppet users - Jul 2012 - Skeleton configuration for managing multiple locations in puppet

I created a skeleton configuration for managing multiple locations in puppet
that I would appreciate feedback on.  The configuration as it stands is that two
sites are defined, Earth and Mars. Parameters for each site are defined in
site/manifests/earth/params.pp and site/manifests/mars/params.pp. I also
included are two modules, ntp and user, to demonstrate configuring modules
across sites.  I''m using puppet enterprise if that makes any
difference.

Is the way that I''ve approached this decent?
Are there glaring pitfalls if this configuration were to grow to more
servers/sites?
Should I be looking into fancy new buzzwords like heira? :)

All the stuff I''ve written is at
https://github.com/ksexton/puppet-sites

Thanks in advance.

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Kyle Sexton

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Hi,

On 07/25/2012 06:12 AM, Kyle Sexton wrote:
> I created a skeleton configuration for managing multiple locations in
puppet that I would appreciate feedback on.  The configuration as it stands is
that two sites are defined, Earth and Mars. Parameters for each site are defined
in site/manifests/earth/params.pp and site/manifests/mars/params.pp. I also
included are two modules, ntp and user, to demonstrate configuring modules
across sites.  I''m using puppet enterprise if that makes any
difference.
> 
> Is the way that I''ve approached this decent?
> Are there glaring pitfalls if this configuration were to grow to more
servers/sites?
Not that I can see at a glance. I do wonder though why you''d want to
declare those users virtual if they''re getting realized on the whole
site, anyway.
> Should I be looking into fancy new buzzwords like heira? :)
I''d say you definitely should.

You will still need per-site manifest code, but hiera can make it really
easy to define site-wide defaults at a semantically sensible
granularity, or so I presume.

Cheers,
Felix

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