local_rand_string

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
3. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

Simple random string generator that uses defined seed and randomly generated salt, which is stored on each machine localy.

Tested only on master-less setups.

Usage

$string = local_rand_string('puppet', 64)
notify { "Generated string is: ${string}": }

Reference

When writing this module, we took an inspiration from:

• https://github.com/olavmrk/puppet-fqdn_rand_uuid

Limitations

This module has only been tested on master-less setup. We are not aware how it is gonna behave with puppet master. We don't have any.

Development

Feel free to create pull request if some functionality should be added, we will be more than happy to merge it.

Pull request should contain tests if possible.