• License - Apache Version 2.0
• Copyright - Puppetlabs 2011

NOTE - this has exists in 2.7.x core, it has been published seperately so that it can be used with 2.6.x

This module contains a custom function for puppet that can be used to dynamically add resources to the catalog.

I wrote this to use with an external node classifier that consumes YAML.

The yaml specifies classes and passes hashes to those classes as parameters

classes: webserver::instances: instances: instance1: foo: bar instance2: foo: blah

Then puppet code can consume the hash parameters and convert then into resources

class webserver::instances ( $instances = {} ) { create_resources('webserver::instance', $instances) }

Now I can dynamically determine how webserver instances are deployed to nodes by updating the YAML files.