Puppet

Hi,

I would like to see a feature to define a list of nodes in Puppet. As far as I understand, we can currently define multiple nodes like this:

node server1, server2, server3 { include someresource }

This wouldn’t scale very well with puppetrun, because I would have to use something like: sudo puppetrun —host server1 —host server2 —host server3 where the number of nodes could be 100.

Instead, I would like to have a node list like this: nodelist servergroup1 { server1, server2, server3 include resources }

and I can puppetrun this with puppetrun —nodelist servergroup1

A feature to group nodes together adds a layer of abstraction in node management. It’s very common to want to group similar nodes (i.e. servers under a single load-balancer) and be able to apply the same configuration in one shot, without having to go through each node definition and update appropriate resources.

If there is already a way to do this, my apologies for not knowing puppet enough. As far as I have asked around on IRC #puppet, people only pointed me to listing multiple hosts in one line like I described here.