Comments on: Managing vhosts on Ubuntu with puppet

By: Dick Davies

Dick Davies — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:45:59 +0000

Thanks Dennis.

Having a bit more experience now, seems to me definitions are going to be more powerful than
templates for vhosts. Thanks for the head start.

By: Dennis Kaarsemaker

Dennis Kaarsemaker — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:04:21 +0000

I use puppet templating for other bits, but not here as many vhosts have special per-vhosts things, making it more convoluted to template than it is to write manually.

Here’s one example: network config
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

<%
i = 0
eth0_addresses.each do |address|
-%>
auto eth0<% if i != 0 %>:<%=i-%><% end %>
iface eth0<% if i != 0 %>:<%=i-%><% end %> inet static
address <%= address %>
netmask 255.255.255.240
gateway 82.94.254.97

<% i+=1; end -%>
<%
i = 0
eth1_addresses.each do |address|
-%>
auto eth1<% if i != 0 %>:<%=i-%><% end %>
iface eth1<% if i != 0 %>:<%=i-%><% end %> inet static
address <%= address %>
netmask 255.255.255.0
<% if i == 0 && address != “10.42.4.1″ -%>
up route add -net 10.42.0.0/16 gw 10.42.4.1
<% end -%>

<% i+=1; end -%>

By: Dick Davies

Dick Davies — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:51:34 +0000

Thanks for the tips, I’ll be cribbing heavily from this while doing our LAMP stack configs.

Just curious : is there any reason you’re not using Puppets templating? Seems like a powerful way to have one config file and turn on bits conditionally depending whether you need SSL or not.

Is it just you’d rather use Python than (E)Ruby?

By: DEEPTHI

DEEPTHI — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:49:38 +0000

beautiful post i am gonna try this one thanx………..alot

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:44:09 +0000

Great, great post. Appreciate any and all stuff about Puppet. Trying to use it myself, and hoping to overcome the initial learning curve.