Puppet users - Aug 2009 - How to add header to all files/templates?

Hello All!

I would like to automatically add a header to all files/templates that
puppet manages on my servers. Something like "#if you break, my puppet
will fix it!!"

Is this possible?

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Le mercredi 05 août 2009 à 22:53 -0700, robbyt a écrit :
> Hello All!
> 
> I would like to automatically add a header to all files/templates that
> puppet manages on my servers. Something like "#if you break, my puppet
> will fix it!!"
> 
> Is this possible?
Probably by creating a custom type that would works like

header_file { "/etc/myapp/myfile":
	owner => blah
	group => xxxx
	source => "puppet://files/app/myapp/myfile"
}

the original "myfile" not having header of course. See
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PracticalTypes that gives an
example of custom type. Moreover, the example looks like what you want
to do.

Regards,

Nico.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:53 AM, robbyt<robbyt@robbyt.net>
wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> I would like to automatically add a header to all files/templates that
> puppet manages on my servers. Something like "#if you break, my puppet
> will fix it!!"
>
> Is this possible?
Not sure if this is the best way, but you could set a variable in your site.pp:

$myheader = "whatever"

I''m pretty sure the template will have access to that variable, but
I''m not positive. Another route would be to create a custom parser
function that sets the variable.... It''s simpler than it sounds. :)

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templates can accept a multiple list of erb files, therefor you could easly
create a define that always include another template(header)

for example (its up to you to test if it works ;))

define mytemplate($template) {
  file {$name:
    content => template("my header file",$template),
  }
}

and than you use it:

mytemplate("/etc/motd":
  template => "my template",
}


hope it helps,
Ohad


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, robbyt <robbyt@robbyt.net> wrote:
>
> Hello All!
>
> I would like to automatically add a header to all files/templates that
> puppet manages on my servers. Something like "#if you break, my puppet
> will fix it!!"
>
> Is this possible?
>
> >
>
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