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Puppet function for converting units of time

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Version information

  • 0.1.0 (latest)
released Oct 6th 2016
This version is compatible with:
  • RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'deanwilson-time_units', '0.1.0'
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bolt module add deanwilson-time_units
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install deanwilson-time_units --version 0.1.0

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deanwilson/time_units — version 0.1.0 Oct 6th 2016

puppet-time_units

A small Puppet function to convert from one unit of time to another.

Build Status Puppet Forge

In a large Puppet code base you'll eventually end up with a scattering of time based 'magic numbers such as cache expiry numbers, zone file ttls and recurring job schedules. You'll typically find these dealt with in one of a few ways. The easiest is to ignore it and leave a hopefully guessable literal value (such as 3600). The other often taken is the dreaded heavily linked comments that start off as 86400 # seconds in a day and over time becomes 3600 # seconds in a day.

This module is a proof of concept that uses a puppet function to make these kind of calls more explicit while keeping larger magic numbers from the code base.

Usage

A basic conversion is called like this:

time_units(15, 'minutes', 'seconds') # returns 900

You can also make calls using a slightly 'prettier' 4 argument version

time_units(2, 'hours', 'in', 'minutes') # returns 120

Installation

You can install this module from PuppetForge:

puppet module install deanwilson-time_units

License

Apache 2.0 - Dean Wilson