Node definitions in 3.6 directory environments

[Paul Seymour]

Hello,

Could I ask for a little clarification over node definitions in 3.6+ and directory environments please.

On our 2.7 masters we have an /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp with some defaults within it.

import "nodes/*.pp"

filebucket { 'main':

  server => 'puppet.dev',

  path   => false,

}

File {

  backup => 'main',

}

node default {

  .. Some default modules for all nodes..

}

And this in the puppet.conf

[dev]

    modulepath = /etc/puppet/environments/dev/modules

And all the <nodes>.pp files are then imported based on the hostname.

Now on a new 3.6 server that I am testing/setting up I have the following in puppet.conf

    environmentpath = $confdir/environments

    basemodulepath  = $confdir/modules

And in the /etc/puppet/environments/dev directory I have now

$ ls -l

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   57 May 19 08:44 environment.conf

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 May 16 15:12 manifests -> /etc/puppet/manifests

drwxr-xr-x 180 root root 4096 May 15 13:46 modules

Which seems to be functioning. But I am concerned that I am not doing it the "best practice" way with the import still in there and

what not.

So is there a better way to lay this out or do I remove the "import" statement and bring all the <node>.pp files back into the same

place as site.pp etc ?

Thanks

Paul

[Henrik Lindberg]

The replacement for import is to place all of your "initial content" in
the same directory - they are processed in alphanumerical order based on
the file name.

See

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_import.html#what-to-use-instead

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/dirs_manifest.html

- henrik

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