Puppet users - Sep 2014 - How best to accomplish geographic location of clients?

Hello all,

I have a small problem I'm trying to resolve, and I'm bowing to the
masters
for suggestions.   Our development organization uses VMware and desktop VMs 
to perform development efforts;  I've come up with mechanisms to populate 
these VMs using puppet to install all the tools they need, such as Eclipse, 
Maven, JDKs, etc. but I'm faced with an issue that I have put off until 
now:  using geographically located tools and servers.  In my environment, 
we have several geographically located "mirror" or "slave"
servers for key
infrastructure environments such as Nexus, Sonar, Subversion, etc.  So, 
while all of our "master" servers are located in data-centers in the
US, we
will have "slave" versions of them located in other countries, such as
Brazil, India, Canada, etc.   So, on to my question:  Is there a way for 
Puppet to detect where a client is running, geographically?   For example, 
if a VM starts up in Hyderabad, India, I want to add host entries to the VM 
that point services like SVN, Nexus, Sonar, Jenkins, etc. to local slaves. 
 I already have manifests to set the host entries appropriately for a given 
location, so this is the easy part.  To add a wrinkle, my company has added 
rules so that ALL VMs that end-users can run on their desktops or laptops 
MUST use NAT ip addresses, so I can't easily use an IP subnet to calculate 
what the best hosts to use are.

So, might anyone have any suggestions or ideas of how I might try to 
accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!
Randy

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