Puppet users - Sep 2013 - best practice for managing multiple stanzas within a config file?

What is the best way to manage multiple stanza within a config file?

For a splunk configuration file (inputs.conf) I need to manage some thing 
like

[monitor://var/log]
blacklist = someRegularExpression
whitelist = someOtherRegularExpression

[monitor://var/lib/ourApp]


There can be multiple monitor stanzas and each may or may not have a 
whitelist or blacklist.

I haven''t found any thing on the forge or in this group regarding best 
practice for managing stanzas within a config file.

I''ve tried a few different combinations of templates, concat and define
and
haven''t found a clean solution yet to construct the stanza. 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks! Thomas

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Hi Thomas,
   You can make use of *augeas* resource type of puppet yo manage the 
config files.

Refer following links for augeas resource type and project,
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#augeas
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/puppet_augeas

Thanks and Regards,
Rahul Khengare
NTT DATA OSS Center, Pune, India.

On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 4:05:20 AM UTC+5:30, Thomas
wrote:
>
> What is the best way to manage multiple stanza within a config file?
>
> For a splunk configuration file (inputs.conf) I need to manage some thing 
> like
>
> [monitor://var/log]
> blacklist = someRegularExpression
> whitelist = someOtherRegularExpression
>
> [monitor://var/lib/ourApp]
>
>
> There can be multiple monitor stanzas and each may or may not have a 
> whitelist or blacklist.
>
> I haven''t found any thing on the forge or in this group regarding
best
> practice for managing stanzas within a config file.
>
> I''ve tried a few different combinations of templates, concat and
define
> and haven''t found a clean solution yet to construct the stanza. 
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks! Thomas
>
>
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Looks like it is the inifile format, so take a look at
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-inifile


On 1 October 2013 00:35, Thomas <thomas.e.kenny@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to manage multiple stanza within a config file?
>
> For a splunk configuration file (inputs.conf) I need to manage some thing
> like
>
> [monitor://var/log]
> blacklist = someRegularExpression
> whitelist = someOtherRegularExpression
>
> [monitor://var/lib/ourApp]
>
>
> There can be multiple monitor stanzas and each may or may not have a
> whitelist or blacklist.
>
> I haven''t found any thing on the forge or in this group regarding
best
> practice for managing stanzas within a config file.
>
> I''ve tried a few different combinations of templates, concat and
define
> and haven''t found a clean solution yet to construct the stanza.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks! Thomas
>
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