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Version information

  • 2.5.1 (latest)
released Jun 20th 2017
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >= 3.0.0 < 5.0.0
  • Debian, RedHat, CentOS, OracleLinux, Scientific, Solaris, SLES, SLED, Ubuntu

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mod 'gearboxscott-hosts', '2.5.1'
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install gearboxscott-hosts --version 2.5.1

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gearboxscott/hosts — version 2.5.1 Jun 20th 2017

Origin Credits:

This module was originally forked from Garrett Honeycutt's puppet-module-hosts. The host resource was updated to allow the creation of FQDN in /etc/hosts files (Issue #40: https://github.com/ghoneycutt/puppet-module-hosts/issues/40)

Doesn't appear the Garrett is maintaining this module anymore on the Puppet Forge. Reposting this module on the Puppet Forge with the correction in place.

hosts module

Manage host entries.

Can ensure entries for localhost, localhost6, and $::fqdn, including aliases and optionally purge unmanaged entries.

Build Status

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Compatibility

This module is built for use with Puppet v3 (with and without the future parser) and Puppet v4 on the following platforms and supports Ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and 2.3.1.

It should work with any *nix based system that uses /etc/hosts.

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Parameters

enable_ipv4_localhost

Boolean to enable ipv4 localhost entry

  • Default: true

enable_ipv6_localhost

Boolean to enable ipv6 localhost entry

  • Default: true

enable_fqdn_entry

Boolean to enable entry for fqdn

  • Default: true

use_fqdn

When enabled use the ${::fqdn} fact to determine the hosts entry for the local node.

  • Default: true

fqdn_host_aliases

String or Array of aliases for fqdn

  • Default: $::hostname

localhost_aliases

String or Array of aliases for localhost

  • Default: [ 'localhost', 'localhost4', 'localhost4.localdomain4' ]

localhost6_aliases

String or Array of aliases for localhost6

  • Default: [ 'localhost6', 'localhost6.localdomain6' ]

purge_hosts

Boolean to optionally purge unmanaged entries from hosts

  • Default: false

target

String for path to hosts file

  • Default: /etc/hosts

collect_all

Boolean to optionally collect all the exported Host resources

  • Default: false

host_entries

Hash of host entries

  • Default: undef

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Hiera example of host_entries

hosts::host_entries: 'servicename.example.com': ip: '10.0.0.5' host_aliases:

  - 'servicename'