Tuesday, December 24, 2013

puppet import (...or few warm words to puppet retarded programmers...)

It's a late night and I'm diving into puppet manual. Who would know, that the bug I was hunting was the result of the following considiration:

node 'kestrel.example.com' { import 'nodes/kestrel.pp' }


This import statement looks like it should insert code INTO the node definition that contains it; instead, it will insert the code outside any node definition, and it will do so regardless of whether the node definition matches the current node.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/lang_import.html

Really the one who let it be this way was no less then a retarded ruby programmer...