Possible to include subdirectories of modules?

[Antonios Dimtsoudis]

Hello,


i want to include subdirectories of modules, for example something like:

cat modules/configuration/git/manifests/init.pp
class git {

    if $::osfamily == 'redhat' {
        package {
            'git': ensure => present,
        }
    }
}

And then include git like:

cat manifests/site/git.pp
node git.domain.tst {
    include "configuration/git"
}

I want to have my modules more structured and subdirectories would be a good solution for me here..


Thanks,
Antonios.

[David Bryant-Moore]

Hi Antonias.

The way you would implement the pattern you want is to use Puppet namespacing.

To explain this using your example code below, your directory structure would need to change to:

modules/configuration/manifests/git

And your include statement would change to:

include configuration::git

This method of referencing Puppet classes is really useful.  The rule to apply when 

namespacing classes in this manner is that the final element of every name space must

always resolve to a puppet class, represented as a .pp file of the same name within the module.

Consider:


modules/foo/manifests/bar.pp

Would be declared as: include foo::bar

Whereas:

modules/foo/manifests/bar/baz.pp

Would be declared as: include foo::bar::baz


HTH

David Bryant-Moore.

david....@puppetlabs.com