Puppet users - Dec 2006 - classes defined in nodes

I just discovered something interesting:

node server.example.org {
    class A {
        ...
    }
}

The above doesn''t do anything.

node server.example.org {
    include A
    class A {
        ...
    }
}

The above works.  I was under the impression that classes defined within a 
node were assumed to be part of that node.  I learned something new today.


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Digant C Kasundra <digant@stanford.edu>
Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University

Digant C Kasundra wrote:
> I just discovered something interesting:
> 
> node server.example.org {
>     class A {
>         ...
>     }
> }
> 
> The above doesn''t do anything.
> 
> node server.example.org {
>     include A
>     class A {
>         ...
>     }
> }
> 
> The above works.  I was under the impression that classes defined within a 
> node were assumed to be part of that node.  I learned something new today.
Defining something never evaluates it automatically in Puppet, so yeah, 
the above won''t do anything automatically.

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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
         --G. K. Chesterton
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