Feature #525

wishlist: ability to exclude an inherited class within a node

Added by Tim Stoop about 5 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:
Priority:Low Due date:
Assignee:Luke Kanies % Done:

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Affected Puppet version:0.25.4 Branch:
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Description

While developing my recipes, I came across something that I think will majorly increase readability of the recipes: Puppet is missing the ability to exclude. It can include, but that’s kind of meaningless, since there’s no way to exclude, except by actually not including it.

Consider this syntax:

node dom0base {
  include aptsource
  include xendom0
  include nullmailer
}

node blade01-dom0, blade02-dom0, blade03-dom0, blade04-dom0, blade05-dom0, blade06-dom0, blade07-dom0, blade08-dom0, blade09-dom0 inherits dom0base {}

node blade10-dom0 inherits dom0base {
  exclude nullmailer
  include postfix
}

I think this can really improve the writing of recipes for, in particular, large number of nodes.

History

#1
Updated by Luke Kanies about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from 1 to Closed
  • 7 set to wontfix

This problem will be solved by the external node mapping tool, not in Puppet’s language.

#2
Updated by Anonymous about 5 years ago

Milestone unplanned deleted

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