Re: Template Nodes considered harmful

--On Tuesday, October 23, 2007 08:33:54 PM +0200 David Schmitt 
<david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The discussion has brought me to another realisation. When using a
> external  node definition script, node inheritance can't be used at all.
> This and the  following (shortened) IRC conversation lead me to the
> conclusion that using  template nodes should be completely replaced by
> using a standard class in the  PuppetBestPractise document on the wiki.
> Therefore I will go on and rewrite  that part.

Yeah, more likely, there should be a class called webserver that would be 
inherited or included as needed per node.  The whole template thing didn't 
pan out like we thought it would.

> (20:27:14) sheeri: that's the only doc that has nodes.pp in it, actually
> (20:27:30) ***sheeri wants to rename it KindaMaybeSortaOKPractice

nodes.pp was what Luke originally setup when he come out on a contract to 
help jumpstart our Puppet deployment but that may not be what others have 
done.  I'm actually planning to publish a 2.0 doc of the best practice as 
much has changed since the original draft.  This is an evolving product and 
with it, practices must evolve.  I'm always interested in hearing how 
others are getting things done with Puppet.

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Digant C Kasundra <digant@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University