Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Configuring hosts with data from other hosts

Ohad Levy
Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:47:22 -0000

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, treydock <treydock@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ive struggled with the same problem of distributing variables and other
> generated data amongst hosts.
>
> For external resources Ive found a great use in configuring a BackupPC
> server.  Each node builds their backup configuration file with tag
> ''backuppc_server_conf'' and the server retrieves all the
generated files
> with that tag.
>
> What I havent been unable to solve, is making each nodes hiera values
> accessable to each other.  My hierarchy is $fqdn->common.  The very
crude
> workaround Ive used is in a module, query foreman for all fqdn''s.
Then
> pass that to a define that ''redefines'' fqdn variable
before calling hiera.
>
> Is there alternatively a way to query resources like all mysql::db types?
>  I would like to just get all the mysql::db instances on a given node so
> other nodes could use that data.  This could be another way to configure
> backuppc or generate monitoring checks.
>

not sure if you already sorted that out or not, but thats the idea behind
the search function that queries foreman, see
 http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/01/getting-foreman-search-results-into.html

Ohad

>
> - Trey
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