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Hi all, hoping someone may have encountered a problem similar to this before: On my customer''s EC2 based infrastructure, we have implemented the nodeless, truth driven module outlined by Jordan Sissel here http://www.semicomplete.com/blog/geekery/puppet-nodeless-configuration. It''s quite an effective model, especially in the realm of EC2... we still have a puppetmaster configuration, and have decided not to go with the masterless option, since we''d like to implement a nagios...

Hello, I would like to find a few to use files available in a module for the execution of a particular resource, without having to stage the file explicitly onto the client and possibly having to clean it up afterwards. (This could also apply to content coming from templates.) The use-cases I have in mind are: running a SQL file (to set up some content in a database), extracting an archive

I''m trying to create a function that I can call in a manifest like this: $doc = doc(''apache::service'') In the function, I want it to actually find the filename for the ''apache::service'' class... from there, I''m going to run some code that will generate the puppet-doc in text format, and then return it in a variable. Ultimately this is so

Hi, I''m quite new to Puppet.. I''m wondering if someone could point me in the right direction regarding the best way to manage a temporary requirement within Puppet? The scenario is, every server in our estate of Debian machines requires some monitoring software which is not provided as a Debian package. So we have a Puppet class, monitor::install which we include to distribute