***GOAL : I want to avoid duplicating my code/lines in this hieradata. How can I rethink my approach to this?***
The component module freshserver::html creates an HTML file with links to launch an application. The link names are based on the company id (e.g. HEH, or BEAT). One company may have many subcompanies, and so multiple links. Each subcompany needs its own html file too, so if HEH has subcompanies WEB, BEAT, HEHB, UDAS we need 5 html files which are all alike, each html file having 5 sets of links.
Hiera is useful for this, because every host/node has DIFFERENT company names on it
**profiles::html**
class profiles::html (
$clients = hiera('profiles::html::clients'),
){
Freshserver::Html {
directory => '/u2/prod1/conf/GUI/web',
}
create_resources(freshserver::html, $clients)
}
**hieradata**
profiles::html::clients:
kelloggs:
ensure: file
hide_links: false
notice: 'this is an example of a so-called normal 1:1 company:html file'
web:
hide_links: true
notice: 'this is an example of a many-to-many, with 1 html file per company, and each html files having all company links'
companies:
- heh
- hehb
- web
- udas
- beat
udas:
hide_links: true
warn: 'Not Yet Live'
notice: 'notice'
companies:
- heh
- hehb
- web
- udas
- beat
hehb:
hide_links: true
warn: 'Not Yet Live'
notice: 'notice'
companies:
- heh
- hehb
- web
- udas
- beat
heh:
hide_links: true
warn: 'Not Yet Live'
notice: 'notice'
companies:
- heh
- hehb
- web
- udas
- beat
beat:
hide_links: true
warn: 'Not Yet Live'
notice: 'notice'
companies:
- heh
- hehb
- web
- udas
- beat
**define freshserver::html**
# configures
.html files in $GW on fresh server
define freshserver::html (
$directory,
$companies = $title,
$ensure = file,
$hide_links = false,
$notice = undef,
$symlink_path = undef,
$warn = undef,
){
validate_absolute_path($directory)
$companies_real = any2array($companies)
$full_path = "${directory}/${title}.html"
file { $title:
ensure => $ensure,
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0644',
path => $full_path,
content => template( 'freshserver/html/client.html.erb'),
}
if $symlink_path != undef {
exec { "${title}-symlink":
user => 'root',
path => '/usr/bin:/bin',
command => "echo test",
require => File[$title],
}
}
}
**client.html.erb**
<% if @hide_links != true -%><% @companies_real.each do |company| -%><% end -%><% @companies_real.each do |company| -%><% end -%><% end -%>
