Puppet: loops for creating file and symlink simultaneously

Question

I would like to parse array and create files and symlink in another directory. I can create files in sites-available and would like to create a symlink in sites-enabled Could you prompt me on how I can do it, please? Can I do at once?

  $domainsnames.each |String $domain| {
    file {"/etc/nginx/sites-available/${domain}.conf":
      # ensure  => link,
      content => template('nginx_on_templates/virtualhost.conf.erb'),
      # target  => "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/${domain}.conf",
      mode    => '0644',
      owner   => 'root',
      group   => 'root',
    }
  }

Thank in advance, Rostyslav

Answer 1

You probably are managing both sites-available and sites-enabled, and you want to simulate what a2ensite enable <site-name> does, correct?

In that case, you have something like:

 $domainsnames.each |String $domain| {
    file {"/etc/nginx/sites-available/${domain}.conf":
      ensure  => file,
      content => template('nginx_on_templates/virtualhost.conf.erb'),
      mode    => '0644',
      owner   => 'root',
      group   => 'root',
    }
    file {"/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/${domain}.conf":
      ensure  => link,
      target  => "/etc/nginx/sites-available/${domain}.conf",
    }
  }

I also recommend you taking a look at the puppetlabs/apache module, where you don't have to manage the .conf yourself, but you manage the configurations for your virtual host:

e.g.:

apache::vhost { 'user.example.com':
  port          => '80',
  docroot       => '/var/www/user',
  docroot_owner => 'www-data',
  docroot_group => 'www-data',
}