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Puppet 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Puppet 5 Cookbook Jump start your Puppet 5.x deployment using engaging and practical recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622448
Length 394 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Puppet Language and Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Puppet Infrastructure 3. Writing Better Manifests 4. Working with Files and Packages 5. Users and Virtual Resources 6. Managing Resources and Files 7. Managing Applications 8. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure 9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem 10. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing powerful conditional statements

Puppet's if statement allows you to change the manifest behavior based on the value of a variable or an expression. With it, you can apply different resources or parameter values depending on certain facts about the node; for example, the operating system or the memory size.

You can also set variables within the manifest, which can change the behavior of included classes. For example, nodes in data center A might need to use different DNS servers than nodes in data center B, or you might need to include one set of classes for an Ubuntu system, and a different set for other systems.

How to do it...

Here's an example of a useful conditional statement. Add the following code to your manifest:

if $::timezone == 'UTC' {
notify { 'Universal Time Coordinated':}
} else {
notify { "$::timezone is not UTC": }
}

How it works...

Puppet treats whatever follows an if keyword as an expression and evaluates it. If the expression evaluates to true, Puppet will execute the code within the curly braces.

Optionally, you can add an else branch, which will be executed if the expression evaluates to false.

There's more...

Lets take a look at some more tips on using if statements.

elsif branches

You can add further tests using the elsif keyword, as follows:

if $::timezone == 'UTC' {
notify { 'Universal Time Coordinated': }
} elsif $::timezone == 'GMT' {
notify { 'Greenwich Mean Time': }
} else {
notify { "$::timezone is not UTC": }
}

Comparisons

You can check whether two values are equal using the == syntax, as in our example:

if $::timezone == 'UTC' {
...
}

Alternatively, you can check whether they are not equal using !=:

if $::timezone != 'UTC' {
...
}

You can also compare numeric values using < and >:

if $::uptime_days > 365 {
notify { 'Time to upgrade your kernel!': }
}

To test whether a value is greater (or less) than or equal to another value, use <= or >=:

if $::mtu_eth0 <= 1500 {
notify {"Not Jumbo Frames": }
}

Combining expressions

You can put together the kind of simple expressions described previously into more complex logical expressions, using and, or, and not:

if ($::uptime_days > 365) and ($::kernel == 'Linux') {
…
}
if ($role == 'webserver') and ( ($datacenter == 'A') or ($datacenter == 'B') ) {
…
}

See also

  • The Using the in operator recipe in this chapter
  • The Using selectors and case statements recipe in this chapter
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Puppet 5 Cookbook - Fourth Edition
Published in: Jun 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788622448
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