Case Trouble w/ Boolean

[Jeremy Frady]

Hey there,

Thanks for taking the time to read this.  My end objective is to utilize a yaml boolean, in this case couchDbServer, as an entry for a case that dictates whether a file is present or not.  I do not want to use stdlib to achieve this.

Following is the code:

class datadog {

    $datadogApiKey = hiera('datadogApiKey', nil)

    $couchDbServer = hiera('couchDbServer', nil)

    yumrepo { 'datadog':

        baseurl     => 'http://yum.datadoghq.com/rpm/',

        descr       => 'Datadog, Inc.',

        enabled     => 1,

        gpgcheck    => 0,

    } ->

    package { 'datadog-agent':

        ensure      => 'installed',

    } ->

    file { 'datadog.conf':

        path        => '/etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf',

        ensure      => 'present',

        content     => template('datadog/datadog.conf.erb'),

    } ->

    file { 'couchdb.yaml':

        path        => '/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/couchdb.yaml',

        ensure      => 'present',

        content     => template('datadog/couchdb.yaml.erb'),

    } ->

    service { 'datadog-agent':

        ensure      => 'running',

        enable      => 'true',

        subscribe   => File[

                            '/etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf',

                            '/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/couchdb.yaml'

                       ],

    }

}

I've tried a ton of things, but none of it works.  Can someone please advise the proper solution?

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

the sledge hammer approach:

file { 'couchdb.yaml':
path => '/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/couchdb.yaml',

ensure => $couchDbServer ? {
true => "present",
default => "absent",

},
content => template('datadog/couchdb.yaml.erb'),
}

But you probably want to look for a more elegant solution, such as
including different classes depending on the flags from hiera.

HTH,
Felix

On 04/10/2014 02:07 AM, Jeremy Frady wrote:
> My end objective is to utilize a yaml boolean, in this
> case couchDbServer, as an entry for a case that dictates whether a file
> is present or not.