Puppet Concat Module

This is a module that provides a native type for performing multi-part file concatenation, generally referred to by the Puppet Labs team as the File Fragment Pattern.

The concept is based on ideas that R.I. Pienaar describes on his Building files from fragments in Puppet page.

Installation

The recommended way to install this package is either through the Puppet module manager or via RPM. A spec file has been included that can be used to create an RPM if required.

This module is known to be compatible with Puppet 2.6.

Basic Usage

This module has been designed to be quite flexible but follows the basic pattern of specifying file fragments and subsequently building a target file.

See the comments in the code for the definition of all options.

concat_build { "identifier":
  order => ['*.tmp'],
  target => '/tmp/test'
}

concat_fragment { "identifier+01.tmp":
  content => "Some random stuff"
}

concat_fragment { "identifier+02.tmp":
  content => "Some other random stuff"
}

Notes

Concat fragments are stored under /var/lib/puppet/concat/fragments.

TODO

Don't hardcode /var/lib/puppet. Instead use the value of $vardir.

Copyright

This file is part of the Onyx Point concat puppet module.

The Onyx Point concat puppet module is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.