Re: [Infrastructures] porting isconf to cfengine

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Luke A. Kanies wrote:

> I'm planning on implementing some stuff in cfenine in the near future --
[snip]
> 
> The only thing I haven't fully decided how to transfer from the hosts file
> to a cfengine config is variables.  I'm not setting very many variables in
> isconf, and in fact all of the ones I'm currently setting are used as
> stanza names which are basically equivalent to classing (e.g., things like
> "IP=1.1.1.1", which gets used in a stanza: "ifconfig/lan0--$IP"), so this
> may not be a barrier, but I'd still like that ability.

 in my company we use cf (1.6.3 still) quite heavily. we wrote a wrapper
script to solve variables problem: it seems that var = ( `escaped shell
cmd` ) just doesn't work. All the wrapper does is tries determining
certain vars (like calculating IPs or reading in our product env files)
then generates variables.cf which cfengine import:'s.

the wrapper is quite site specific and also uses our product-env api
(just a way to source in a right hash file), but if anyone interested i
can provide the source (perl).

.02$: our stand on old-like-world push vs pull: if it's <10 boxes (in most
cases golden box clones in different datacenters) --push else pull.
v



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