credativ/puppet-module-slapd

puppet module for slapd

credativ slapd puppet module¶ ↑

Requirements¶ ↑

This module template requires the params_lookup function as found in the example42 puppi module (github.com/credativ/puppet-example42lib)

Usage¶ ↑

This module template uses parameterized classes. However, to make it work well with ENCs and to support hiera as an external data store, it uses a special function to define defaults for each parameter. That way, there are several ways to feed parameters into classes created with this module.

Top-Level variables / Hiera¶ ↑

In this case the argument name in the class needs to be prefixed with the module name. For example, if a module has a parameter use_xy it can be pre-declared like this:

$modulename_use_xy = $value

The same naming scheme works if parameters are defined in hiera.

Just be aware of global parameters: Modules may declare a parameter as global. In this case it is not prefixed with the module name. That usually makes sense for variables which are shared between various different modules.

Parameters ¶ ↑

Obviously passing the plain parameters as argument to the class definition works too:

class { 'modulename':
    use_xy => $value
}

In that case no prefixing with the module name is required.

Defaults¶ ↑

If no value is specified, in none of the mentioned data sources, modules refer to default values. Those are defined in modulename::params (manifests/params.pp). Each module shall define the most sensible defaults.