[clue] Fwd: seeking puppet advice

[Chris Fedde]

I'm going to be an ass here and just say "ansible".

Puppet is a great tool but I think that it requires too much ceremony and
has transformation rules that I can't wrap my head around.
While I don't consider our investment in puppet to be sunk cost I do think
that we could have been farther along if we had invested the same time in
ansible.
Of course about half of our problem with puppet has as much to do with
giant company overhead as it does with a

https://ansible.wistia.com/medias/qrqfj371b6


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Follow-up:
> It is!   It's the bloody camel-casing!
> I created the exact same module/directory structure and called it atest,
> instead of aTest, and it worked fine!
> Sheesh.
>
> Sorry for the spam.
>
> Mike B
>
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> From: Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:05 PM
> Subject: seeking puppet advice
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>
>
>
> I've been staring at something, looking at google, various books for a
> couple days now, I don't know what the heck is going on.  I've got a
> prototype puppet server going in a small environment, but I haven't managed
> to apply a roll-my-own module yet.
>
> I get
> Error: Could not find class aTest for mul-puppet.xxx on node
> mul-puppet.xxxx
>
> Interestingly enough, physically specifiying the long path in the site.pp
> file seems to work
>
> import '/etc/puppet/modules/aTest/manifests/init.pp'
>
> root at mul-puppet:/etc/puppet/manifests# cat
> /etc/puppet/modules/aTest/manifests/init.pp
> class aTest {}
>
> What I don't understand is why the autoloader can't handle it.  I
> literally have other modules I've copied from books the exact same way,
> there's only one difference.   The module name is camelCase.    Is it that
> simple?   does screwing with the case mess with the puppet autoloader?
>
> Mike B
>
>
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