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Puppet - mco - passing parameters

I have different manifest files in puppet server. two questions I have.

  1. How can I push a specific manifest file to be run on a set of agents using mco command?
  2. How can I pass parameters to the manifest file from puppet master commandline (from mco).

Is there a way to use tags to do it? ie, do different set of operations using different tags

Solution

  • The master picks the manifest for each agent going by the respective $certname value. It is used for looking up node blocks in your manifest.

    However, you are not bound to structure your manifest by node. If security is not much of a concern, you could use a custom fact like so

    # site.pp
case $::task {
  'taskA': { include taskA }
  'taskB': { include taskB }
  ...
}

    Then pass the desired value using

    FACTER_task=taskB puppet agent --onetime --no-daemonize

    It should not be difficult to teach mco to do something to that effect.