[colug-432] Puppet Foreman default environment

[Scott Merrill]

> On May 14, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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>> On May 14, 2015, at 10:06, Scott Merrill <skippy at skippy.net> wrote:
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>> I have no experience with Foreman, so can’t provide any real help there.
> 
> Curious what you're doing for an ENC?  Puppet enterprise or something else?
> 
> I'm futzing with Foreman because we may end up using Satellite 6 to manage the environment, which has some puppet components like Foreman baked(?) in.
> 

We do use Puppet Enterprise, so we have the Puppet Dashboard, but we don’t use that to apply classes to our nodes.  The pointy-clicky nature of the Dashboard makes it hard to automate, impossible to version control, and generally takes too long.

We use Hiera to apply classes to our servers:
   http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/

Specifically, we rely on hiera_include:
   http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/puppet.html#assigning-classes-to-nodes-with-hiera-hierainclude

Our manifests/site.pp contains this line:
   hiera_include('classes’)

We have a “classes” array in various Hiera files. For example, to apply our base profile to all servers, we have this in our hieradata/global.yaml:
---
classes:
  - profile::base

Additional classes can be applied at various other levels of our Hiera hierarchy, though mostly they’re set on a per-server level.

Cheers,
Scott