puppet-hosts

Table of contents

• Usage
  • Examples
• Contributions
• License and Author

Usage

This module aims to provide default behavior which should work, without needing to set parameteres, for the majority of use cases. That is to:

• Remove unused/uneeded/unmanaged /etc/hosts entries.
• Ensure that a typical set of entries for the loopback and related ipv6 addresses are present- Create an entry for the host's FQDN address.
• Provide an interface to create hosts entries via hiera data.

Please have a look at our REFERENCE.md. All parameters are documented in that file.

Examples

Typically, inclusion of the hosts class should be sufficent for most use cases.

include hosts

Creation of hosts entries via hiera:

lookup_options:
  hosts::hosts:
    merge:
      strategy: "deep"
hosts::entries:
  foo.example.com:
    ip: '10.0.0.1'
    host_aliases:
      - foo
  bar.example.com:
    ip: '10.0.0.2'
    host_aliases:
     - bar
  baz.example.com:
    ip: '10.0.0.3'
    host_aliases:
     - baz

Contributions

Contribution is fairly easy:

• Fork the module into your namespace
• Create a new branch
• Commit your bugfix or enhancement
• Write a test for it (maybe start with the test first)
• Create a pull request

Detailed instructions are in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License and Author

This module was originally written by Joshua Hoblitt. It's licensed with AGPL version 3.