Puppet users - Sep 2013 - Creating multiple redis instances

Hello guys,

I''m creating a module to manage redis, and facing just a little problem
with that.
I have the following init.pp

class redis {
  include redis::install
  include redis::service
  include redis::params   # redis:: params also import
                          # redis::config and
                          # redis::monitoring
}

My params class receive some parameters from a define called redisInstance:

class redis::params {
  define redisInstance ($redis_port = 6379, $redis_host = "127.0.0.1",
$slaveof  = false, $master_port = false) {
    include redis::config, redis::monitoring
  }
}

Into redisInstance I have two includes to both, configure and monitoring
redis, with I do based on the given parameters.
The problem is that I''m not able to create a second instance just like
this:

  redis::params::redisInstance {
      "redis_6379": redis_port    => "6379", redis_host  
=>
"192.168.100.97", slaveof       => "127.0.0.1",
master_port   => "6872";
      "redis_6380": redis_port    => "6380", redis_host  
=>
"192.168.100.98", slaveof       => "127.0.0.1",
master_port   => "6880";
  }

Finally, the part which should configure multiple instances is on config.pp
and is the following:

  file { "/etc/redis/redis_${redis_port}.conf":
    ensure  => file,
    content => template("redis/config/redis.conf.erb"),
    mode    => 0644,
    notify  => Class["redis::service"];
  }

My question is, why the "define" redisInstance cannot create multiple
instances when I use the "include" directive, but when I call the
"file"
directive into the define it create as many instances as I want ?
For example, If I use the include directive and call de define as the
following:
redis::params::redisInstance {
      "redis_6379": redis_port    => "6379", redis_host  
=>
"192.168.100.97", slaveof       => "127.0.0.1",
master_port   => "6872";
      "redis_6380": redis_port    => "6380", redis_host  
=>
"192.168.100.98", slaveof       => "127.0.0.1",
master_port   => "6880";
  }
It just creats a single instance(6379) and not the second one(6380).

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On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 6:36:54 PM UTC-5, Charles Mean
wrote:
>
> My question is, why the "define" redisInstance cannot create
multiple
> instances when I use the "include" directive, but when I call the
"file"
> directive into the define it create as many instances as I want ? 
> For example, If I use the include directive and call de define as the 
> following:
> redis::params::redisInstance {
>       "redis_6379": redis_port    => "6379",
redis_host    =>
> "192.168.100.97", slaveof       => "127.0.0.1",
master_port   => "6872";
>       "redis_6380": redis_port    => "6380",
redis_host    =>
> "192.168.100.98", slaveof       => "127.0.0.1",
master_port   => "6880";
>   }
> It just creats a single instance(6379) and not the second one(6380).
>

It is a fundamental Puppet concept that classes are singletons.  That means 
assigning the same class to a node multiple times (e.g. via
''include'')
doesn''t mean anything more than assigning it once.  This turns out to
be
very useful.

Defined types, on the other hand, are resource types, very much analogous 
to built-in types such as File.  Like any other resource type, you can 
declare multiple instances of a defined type, and each is distinct from the 
others.


John

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