Re: Specifying geographic related facts

McLeod, Matt wrote:
> We did this by writing a custom fact to examine the IP address, as each
> site is on a different subnet.  It's working well for us.
>   

I suppose we could something like that however in our case things are 
bit more complicated since internal IPs in these sites are identical. I 
figured out a roundabout way of doing it. Basically we have a central  
subversion repository with all the configs. This machine pushes all the 
configs up to different sites through a BASH script. What I did then is 
rename site.pp to site.pp.template. I stuck following in the beginning 
of the file

$site_id="===SITEID==="

Then in my BASH script I find out what SITEID I am syncing to

# Generate Site.pp that contains SITEID in it
cat $SVN_CHECKOUT/puppet-manifests/site.pp.template | sed 
"s/===SITEID===/$SITEID/g" > $SVN_CHECKOUT/puppet-manifests/site.pp

When I am done rsyncing I delete

rm -f $SVN_CHECKOUT/puppet-manifests/site.pp

Now siteA has site.pp that starts with

$site_id="siteA"

while siteB has

$site_id="siteB"

I hope this helps someone :-).

Vladimir

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:puppet-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vladimir
> Sent: Friday, 12 October 2007 7:40 AM
> To: Puppet User Discussion
> Subject: [Puppet-users] Specifying geographic related facts
>
> Let's say I have two different geographic sites. They are pretty much 
> identical ie. each site has a machine called web1 which is a web server,
>
> etc. Except there are couple site-specific settings ie. outgoing DNS 
> servers are different,  SSL certs are different etc.
>
> On the puppetmaster I can put in a file called e.g.
>
> /etc/sideid
>
> which would uniquely identify a site ie. siteX or siteY. How would I on 
> the managed nodes get these fact propagated so that
>
>  - siteX-web1 gets certificate for web1.siteX.domain.com
>  - siteY-web1 gets certificate for web1.siteY.domain.com
>
> The key is that I want to keep these sites nearly identical without 
> needing to generate bunch of configuration duplication.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vladimir
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