Breaking old practices

When Puppet Labs decided to work on the parser and on the new features, they also decided to remove some features that had already been deprecated for a couple of releases.

Converting node inheritance

Node inheritance has been considered good practice during older Puppet releases. To avoid too much code on the node level, a generic, nonexistent host was created (basenode) and the real nodes inherited from basenode:

node basenode {
  include security
  include ldap
  include base
}
node 'www01.example.net' inherits 'basenode' {
  class { 'apache': }
  include apache::mod::php
  include webapplication
}

This node classification is no longer supported by Puppet 4.

As of 2012, the roles...