This eventually required a support ticket to figure out, so I’m documenting it here in case it’s useful to others.
The problem: You have a puppet function you find useful. At this point custom functions are really easy to create and distribute via modules so there’s really no reason not to be using them. However, you [...]
I’ve been playing a lot with Puppet recently, and have been really focusing on getting a core set of modules in place. I found myself using a few module patterns over and over, so I thought I’d write them down and keep an updated list.
/base and /site
Our puppet modules are stored in 2 directories: /base [...]
I’m managing Linux HA (heartbeat2) from Puppet and I had a problem.
There is a file called ‘cib.xml’ used by heartbeat which I needed to manage. For a variety of boring reasons, when you make changes to this file, you must have a number in it which is the highest the
app has ever seen.
To make things [...]
