Feature #334
Clone a hostgroup
| Status: | Closed | Start: | 07/01/2010 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: |  Ohad Levy |
% Done: | 100% |
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| Category: | Web Interface | |||
| Target version: | 0.2 | |||
| Backlog: | Yes | Difficulity: | ||
| Votes: | 0 |
Description
We are trying foreman to deploy our sites.
One site consists of 3 servers and we have to define the same variables (around 20) for all groups.
An interesting feature would be to have a "group template" or a inheriting variables names defined in the environment section. That way, we would not forget to create a variable inside a new group.
Related issues
| related to Foreman - Feature #563: Allow import and export "parameters" to/from a file (Global and on every level I can set parameters) | New | 01/04/2011 |
Associated revisions
Revision 4899723c1b0b83042a2512f782886777ca6b1bd3
fixes #334 - Clone a hostgroup
History
Updated by Ohad Levy over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Need more information
I'm not really sure I understand what you are asking for.. are you asking for the fields to per visible when editing a host? or maybe you just want to use the global/common parameters?
Updated by Benjamin Papillon over 1 year ago
I'll try to clarify what I'd like with my poor english ;)
Here, we manage ~50 groups of 3 hosts (1 firewall, 2 proxies). The nodes are installed by default with the same master and same IP settings.
We want to move the 2 proxies to puppet and foreman as a node classifer.
The process we found to install the servers is the following :
- create a new group
- create variables for this group (ipaddress_relay1, ipaddress_relay2, domain, ipaddress_gateway, MS domain parameters for proxy auth...)
- create the new servers
- affect classes to nodes and group
- on the puppetmaster, use puppetmasterd to compile catalog using the "install" environment
- on the nodes, apply the catalog and then, move the nodes to the "production" environment at next reboot. (It's better to reboot since we are changing ip and hostname settings)
- manage day to day nodes with foreman :)
The problem using this procedure is the second step. It's really easy to forget the creation of one variable or to misspell one.
The feature I'd like is pre-populate the list of variables to enter for a group. It can be done depending the environment or a "group template" where you can store default classes and variables for new groups.
Benjamin
Updated by Ohad Levy over 1 year ago
- Subject changed from Add pre-created variables for new groups to Clone a hostgroup
Updated by Ohad Levy over 1 year ago
- Status changed from Need more information to Assigned
- Target version set to 0.2
Updated by Ohad Levy about 1 year ago
- Backlog set to Yes
Updated by Bash Shell about 1 year ago
We use a rake task for this.
An easier alternative would be nice.
Updated by Marcello de Sousa about 1 year ago
Would be nice to have a more general approach to this and allow you not only to clone host groups, but any clone level of parameters "set". Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like Feature #563 would also help here.
Updated by Ohad Levy 12 months ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Ready For Testing
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Applied in changeset 4899723c1b0b83042a2512f782886777ca6b1bd3.
