Puppet users - May 2013 - Foreman and Puppet managing templates question

Hi,

I have just started to use Foreman 1.1. I have been using Puppet for a 
while and have some custom modules and ones that have been dragged down 
from git etc. 

I am using nodes.pp in Puppet to assign classes and template entries to 
hosts.

So is Foreman meant to eliminate my need for a nodes.pp? How do I manage my 
erb templates in Puppet without a nodes.pp? 

Thanks,


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Foreman does replace nodes.pp.  It acts as an ''ENC'', the
external node
classifier.  We''d need more details on what you''re doing with
templates in
Puppet and nodes.pp to really answer this question.  Are you thinking in
terms of how you''d put variables into nodes directly with Foreman? 
There''s
space in the host page in Foreman for adding variables, under
"Parameters"
if you want to add them directly.  A better approach to this is to look
into Hiera, where you build a hierarchal data store that relies on various
facts to provide the appropriate contents to variables to then consume in
erb templates.

Ideally you''d find ways to not have node specific information, but if
you
did need it you''d add $::fqdn to your hiera hierarchy and then add
nodename.yaml files for each node where you listed out all the variables.
This has the big benefit of remaining version controlled, unlike parameter
entries in Foreman.

As I said earlier, if you give some use cases we can probably explain this
all a little better to you.

Thanks,


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM, timo <stockfordtim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just started to use Foreman 1.1. I have been using Puppet for a
> while and have some custom modules and ones that have been dragged down
> from git etc.
>
> I am using nodes.pp in Puppet to assign classes and template entries to
> hosts.
>
> So is Foreman meant to eliminate my need for a nodes.pp? How do I manage
> my erb templates in Puppet without a nodes.pp?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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Thanks for the reply. You''ve answered my question. 

I''ll post back if I need anymore help.

On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 3:49:38 PM UTC+1, Ashley Penney
wrote:
>
> Foreman does replace nodes.pp.  It acts as an ''ENC'', the
external node
> classifier.  We''d need more details on what you''re doing
with templates in
> Puppet and nodes.pp to really answer this question.  Are you thinking in 
> terms of how you''d put variables into nodes directly with Foreman?
There''s
> space in the host page in Foreman for adding variables, under
"Parameters"
> if you want to add them directly.  A better approach to this is to look 
> into Hiera, where you build a hierarchal data store that relies on various 
> facts to provide the appropriate contents to variables to then consume in 
> erb templates.
>
> Ideally you''d find ways to not have node specific information, but
if you
> did need it you''d add $::fqdn to your hiera hierarchy and then add
> nodename.yaml files for each node where you listed out all the variables.  
> This has the big benefit of remaining version controlled, unlike parameter 
> entries in Foreman.
>
> As I said earlier, if you give some use cases we can probably explain this 
> all a little better to you.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:53 AM, timo <stockf...@gmail.com
<javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just started to use Foreman 1.1. I have been using Puppet for a 
>> while and have some custom modules and ones that have been dragged down
>> from git etc. 
>>
>> I am using nodes.pp in Puppet to assign classes and template entries to
>> hosts.
>>
>> So is Foreman meant to eliminate my need for a nodes.pp? How do I
manage
>> my erb templates in Puppet without a nodes.pp? 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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