Re: [Puppet Users] Definitions in External Nodes

Douglas Garstang
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:04:01 -0000

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0@skurfer.com>
wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>
>> Anyone know if there''s a plan to allow definitions to be used
in
>> external nodes? Not having that ability is a major pain in the ass. It
>> really means that all that really works with external nodes is really
>> simple cases of a single piece of software being installed and
>> configured, like apache for example.
>
> I''ve used external nodes all along and never found this to be a
limitation. Classes can do much much more than one thing, so I''m not
sure what you mean.
>
> External nodes can have classes and variables. Classes can call
definitions. Facts and variables can be passed to those definitions.
>
> What additional functionality would you get?

I mean that you need to create a new class for each customer you add.
That does not scale.

Doug.