share_data

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Example
3. Defined Types
   • Share_data
4. Functions
   • share_data::retrieve()

Overview

This module allowd you to share data with other nodes instead iof only exporting resources.

Example

Node sending data

share_data { $fqdn:
  data  => [ $hostname, $ipaddress ],
  label => 'foobar',
}

Node using data

$data = share_data::retrieve('foobar')

$data.each |$item| {
  host { $item[0]:
    ensure => present,
    ip     => $item[1],
  }
}

file { '/tmp/mywhitelist.txt':
  ensure  => file,
  content => inline_template('<% @data.each do |val| %><%= val[0] %>:<%= val[1] %><% end %>'),
}

This will create host entries for each node and a file with content like:

node1: 192.168.1.1
node2: 192.168.1.2
node3: 192.168.1.3

Defined Types

Share_data

Used to ship data to the master.

Share_data parameters

• label

  Basically a tag used to call upon specific data later. Required

• data

  What you want to share. Can be any type- String, Array, Hash, etc. Default: $title

Functions

share_data::retrieve()

share_data::retrieve inputs

• label

  The label used to mark the data you want to retrieve. This function will return an Array of matching share_data items.