Month: October 2016
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Puppet custom type validation woes
Since I’ve just lost a full day to troubleshooting this issue, I’m documenting it in case it hits anyone else. In at least puppet versions 4.7.0 and earlier, global type validation cannot be used to ensure the presence of paramters without breaking puppet resource. Simplified example type: This works fine to validate that in a…
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puppet-sabayon
I’ve just uploaded my first puppet module to the forge, optiz0r-sabayon, which improves support for the Sabayon Linux distribution in puppet. This does the following things: Overrides the operatingsystem fact for Sabayon hosts Adds a provider for entropy package manager, and sets this as the default for Sabayon Adds a shim service provider, that marks systemd as the…