That sounds a bit more complicated, what I would like to achieve. If there was a serial number that is increased, if there was a change in the code, that would be great to use. Like a timestamp. So I could ask the server for the last change time and decide if puppet agent should be started.

Probably, if there no such thing, I will do it with a workaround, that's not a problem at all

If you’re on PE, maybe codemanager has an API that will tell you that.

I use OSS puppet

thaks for the suggestions

I do, too. We’ve got a deploy pipeline that pushes the new code into the environment, so it’d be just a matter of adding an extra line to our pipeline to achieve what you want. I guess it all depends on how you guys are delivering the code.

It's delivered to the puppet server via r10k and a cron job

And a cron job starts the agents regularly

monitor when agents requests catalogs and avoid a thundering herd problem

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the huge benefit of cron is that you can distribute the agents perfectly across a time frame

puppet agent as daemon has the splay option to add some variation to the run interval, but thats not perfect

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Hi all - Is it possible to define a new (local) variable within a ERB template ?

I’m doing lots of this inside an ERB template file:`<%= @dataconnectors['SharedToken']['databaseconnection']['attributes'] %>`

Was wanting to assign that whole thing to a variable if possible

Seems that an underscore in front of a variable name can help here ?

i.e. this seems to work:

Ah - Unfortunately although the variable definition seems to work, but then the data structure also gets written out to disk (as a result of the first line)

Ah - Unfortunately although the variable definition seems to work, but then the data structure also gets written out to disk (as a result of the first line)

Hi all - Is it possible to define a new (local) variable within a ERB template ?

Is there any way to suppress the output in the assignment ?

<% ... %>

instead of

<%= ... %>

The point of the

=

is to output what is evaluated 😉

Oh!

Thank you @smortex:)

apache::vhost { "xyz.software.com": apache::mod { 'ldap': } apache::mod { 'authnz_ldap': } file { '/etc/apache2/sites-available/test.conf': ensure => present, owner => root, group => root, mode => '0644', source => 'puppet:///modules/mule/xyz.software.com/test.conf', notify => [Exec["enable test.conf"],], } } what is the mistake in this file? when i do puppet parser it points to { in line 4

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Your vhost needs a }¿