Consultant said that beginning with Puppet 4.0, node inheritance will not
work and the next versions will mark it as deprecated.
I previously used Foreman's nested group functionality and suspect that it
leveraged node inheritance as its mechanism but perhaps not - I didn't
check the source code. Will the Forman's nested groups survive the next
major Puppet update?
Node inheritance is deprecated in 3.7 and apparently removed in 4.0
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/GEP-67
I don't believe it impacts theforeman since the ENC is providing the
classes assigned to the node and not actually building out an "inherits"
keyword.
-byron
Correct. node foo inherits bar {} is something you would write in a
site.pp manifest, but since Foreman is a direct ENC endpoint, rather
than writing site files, we won't be affected by changes in site.pp.
Users who mix site.pp and an ENC should still be wary, of course.
Greg