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Manage the /etc/hosts file
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  • 0.0.1 (latest)
released Dec 5th 2012

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lsit/hosts — version 0.0.1 Dec 5th 2012

hosts

Manage the /etc/hosts file. Allows for a site-wide host and node-specific list of host entries. Data is stored in hiera.

License

Distributed under the New BSD License

Contact

Jose Guevarra jguevarra@lsit.ucsb.edu

Support

This module was tested on puppet 2.7.0, hiera 1.0.0

Installation

  1. Install lsit-hosts module

    Install the module by normal means. You will also need to have puppet setup to work with hiera as a data store.

    By default, the hosts module will write to /etc/hosts and use its own template.

  1. Add site-wide host entries

    Site-wide values are stored in "hosts::site_hosts_hsh". Add site-wide hosts entries to your common.yaml file or which ever file you use to store site-wide heira values. Entries are organized into sections; "Web Servers", by example below. You must have at least one section. See example below.

hosts vars

hosts::site_hosts_hsh: 'Web Servers':

- '10.0.16.10     yoda-priv.example.com yoda-priv'
- '10.0.16.11     chewbacca.example.com www.example.com chewbacca'
- '10.0.16.13     solo.example.com www2.example.com solo'

'Log Servers':

- '192.168.2.134     loghost1.example.com'
- '192.168.2.167     loghost2.example.com'

= Result =

Site-Wide Host Entries

Web Servers

10.0.16.10 yoda-priv.example.com yoda-priv 10.0.16.11 chewbacca.example.com www.example.com chewbacca 10.0.16.13 solo.example.com www2.example.com solo

Log Servers

192.168.2.134 loghost1.example.com 192.168.2.167 loghost2.example.com

  1. Node-specific hosts entries Node-specific value ware stored in "hosts::node_hosts_hsh". You can add hosts entries that are specific to a particular node by configuring hiera to lookup node-specific values first. Adding the section "nodes/%{fqdn}" tells hiera took look for values in nodes yaml file(e.g. nodes/lea.example.com.yaml) before it searches the site-wide values.

= example hiera.yaml =

:backends: - yaml

:logger: console

:hierarchy: - nodes/%{fqdn}

        - common

:yaml: :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata

  1. Overriding template and hosts file path The template and hosts file path variables are stored in "hosts::hosts_tmpl" and "hosts::hosts_path", respectively. You can override these values by setting them in either the site-wide or the node-specific data store.

    Note: When overriding the "hosts::hosts_tmpl", puppet will search with respect to the default template directory.

  1. Set "puppetheader" variable(optional) In general, it is a good idea to have a header on puppet-managed files. The hosts module expects a variable named "puppetheader" to hold the puppet header string. By default, it uses "Managed By Puppet". Override this by adding the "puppetheader" value in your heira data store.