Building config files using snippets

Sometimes you can't deploy a whole config file in one piece, yet making line-by-line edits isn't enough. Often, you need to build a config file from various bits of configuration managed by different classes. You may run into a situation where local information needs to be imported into the file as well. In this example, we'll build a config file using a local file as well as snippets defined in our manifests.

Getting ready

Although it's possible to create our own system to build files from pieces, we'll use the puppetlabs-supported concat module. We will start by installing the concat module. In a previous example we installed the module to our local machine; in...