[Puppet Users] Definitions in External Nodes

Douglas Garstang
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:58:05 -0000

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 have a number of web packages that I need to install on a system.
Using external nodes, I have to explicitly set everything as a
variable, and then have a specialised class to handle that, which
means that each time I add a new customer, I have to add a new class.
Uhm... new logic to handle new customers.... not very scalable.

Doug.