What is the puppet way to send configuration details along with the request from the puppet ?

[Malintha Adikari]

Hi,

I am new to puppet. In my puppet master side I want to create some configurations dynamically. For that I have to send those configuration details along with the puppet agent request to the master. I have plenty of configurations details to be sent with a request. Does Puppet support this kind of operation. How can I achieve this ?

Regards,

Malintha Adiakri

[Christopher Wood]

It sounds like you want to use facts to make decisions about what configurations to apply:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_facts_and_builtin_vars.html
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html

The usual caveat here tends to be that you should be telling the host what to configure, not configuring based on what the machine thinks.

To store configuration details in a straightforward fashion, you should probably be looking into hiera:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/

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[Malintha Adikari]

Thank you very much. Yes I have strated implementing it using external facts.

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