How to create a node default?

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Hi Guys,

I started to use the foreman with ENC in my servers with puppet.

But I need to create a node default and I don't know, how to do this.

Anyone, could help me ?

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Generally speaking, you don't want to. "node default" is a concept
that exists solely within site.pp, and while you can mix site.pp with
an ENC, it has caveats you should be aware of[1]. In particular,
defining classes in a "node default" block would be something I'd
avoid, since that's the ENC's job. Defining resource defaults is
probably fine though.

The better approach for classes is to define a "Base" (or similar
name) hostgroup or configgroup, and ensure it's assigned to all your
nodes. This keeps visibility where it should be, and doesn't introduce
strange behaviour when trying to debug where a node inherited a class
from (since you would naturally start with the classes coming from the
ENC).

HTH,
Greg

[1]https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html#how-merging-works

3

Tks for your answer Greg.

Do you have a link ou a video to send me how to create or define a "Base"
on hostgroup or configgroup ?

··· On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Greg Sutcliffe wrote:

Generally speaking, you don’t want to. “node default” is a concept
that exists solely within site.pp, and while you can mix site.pp with
an ENC, it has caveats you should be aware of[1]. In particular,
defining classes in a “node default” block would be something I’d
avoid, since that’s the ENC’s job. Defining resource defaults is
probably fine though.

The better approach for classes is to define a “Base” (or similar
name) hostgroup or configgroup, and ensure it’s assigned to all your
nodes. This keeps visibility where it should be, and doesn’t introduce
strange behaviour when trying to debug where a node inherited a class
from (since you would naturally start with the classes coming from the
ENC).

HTH,
Greg

[1]
https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html#how-merging-works

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