puppet dependency for conditional statement

[Weng Wilson]

Hi,

I'm new to puppet. Our deployment process is kind of sequential, so I frequently use chain arrow "->" to solve the dependency. But when there is conditional statements such as "if ... else ..." , the chain will broken. The next operation cannot design which resource to depend on.

Could anybody suggest me some good way or better structure to solve that?

Thanks

Wilson

[jcbollinger]

You can use the require / before / subscribe / notify resource metaparameters instead of chaining operators.  You can also chain resource references instead of directly chaining declarations:

  Package['foo'] -> File['/etc/foo.conf']

And you can hide conditionals inside defined types, or simply move them elsewhere.  Variations on the last are particularly popular, as they include aspects of the "roles and profiles" pattern as well as common applications of hiera.


John