How to apply a set of configurations to a specific host group?

[Sans]

Hi all,

For some historical reason, our hosts are not systematically named nor matches with the service(s) it runs and I don't see it's changing any time soon. So using a Regex in the nodename is not really an option for me. I have four environments - Dev, Int, Stage and Live - and I've just started using hiera to define the nodes like this:

curr_coll_list:
    - mon510.back.local
    - mon507.mgrt.local

curr_db_list:
    - mon512.mgrt.local
    - pdb511.back.local
    - pdb504.back.local

   
Is there any way I can use that to apply a set of configurations to, say curr_coll_list? Or, what are the other options I have?
I know that node can have a comma separated list of host names but that doesn't make things any easier for me.

Best,
San

[José Luis Ledesma]

Hi,

You can use a default node definition, checking if the hostname is inside any of your array declarations.

Regards,

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[Sans]

Thanks Jose!
That trick worked (I've actually used that thing before) but I was wondering if there is a way to do it "properly", like creating  a host-group or something like that.

Best!

[Neil - Puppet List]

Hello

I think you'd probably be best served by using a sql backend to hiera.

this would allow you to think and configure in terms of host groups but hiera to find that a host has a class of group.

A view or two might be needed to keep things tidy.

Neil

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[Sans]

Do you have any example(s) handy, Neil?
I'm trying in google as well. Top of that, I never used SQL with hiera before.

[José Luis Ledesma]

There is a nice hiera-mysql module. Although from my point of view using a MySQL to resolve this problem seems a bit overkill.

IMO this module is to attack some kind of existing mysql cmdb, but it's just my opinion.

Regards

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