On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:08 PM, R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net> wrote:
> And for what its worth this afternoon just to see how hard it is
> and to again ask to myself ''wtf has no-one done this
yet?'' and also
> ''wtf are people at Puppet Labs reinventing this wheel?'' I
wrote
> a new extlookup that has pluggable backends.
>
The bit about reinventing the wheel probably doesn''t make sense to most
of
this list. RI is referring to something I hacked up as a slightly different
direction to extlookup <https://github.com/nigelkersten/puppet-get> which
I
didn''t send to the list after some chat back and forth between RI and I
convinced me that it wasn''t a productive enough direction to head in.
> It has a 100% backward compatible CSV backend and new a YAML backend
>
This is killer work. If you haven''t looked at this yet, and are
struggling
with data separation, you should definitely check it out.
>
> Backends are easy to add - I will make the interface a little bit better
> in future and I, again, wish Puppet Labs would fix bugs that make it
> easier to deploy Util classes into masters.
>
Apart from that bug RI, what else could we do in core to make this more of a
seamless integration?
> Rather than abuse global variables I added a simple YAML based config
> file.
>
> So, again, I hacked this up this afternoon, its early days and no doubt
> can be improved. Feedback welcome
>
> https://github.com/ripienaar/puppet-extlookup
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Thanks Ohad, this looks very interesting.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ohad Levy < ohadlevy@gmail.com
>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > fyi, https://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-lookup exists for a long time
> > too, it also allows you to put your actual data files inside your
> > modules (or mulitple modules with a search / prio path).
> >
> >
> > Ohad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Aaron Grewell <
> > aaron.grewell@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > FYI, if you haven''t seen ymllookup it''s unofficial
but worth a test:
> > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4433
> >
> > For those of us that find extlookup useful ymllookup takes it to the
> > next level and allows lookups in YAML. Having the ability to lookup
> > arrays of hashes has made life so much easier for me.
> >
> >
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