Using resource defaults
Resource defaults allow you to specify the default attribute values for a resource. Resource defaults are valid for a given resource type and within the current scope. If you define a resource default in a class, then all resources of that type within the class will be given those defaults. In this example, we'll show you how to specify a resource default for the File type.
How to do it...
To show you how to use resource defaults, we'll create an apache module. Within this module, we will specify that all file resources require the httpd package and the default owner and group are the apache user:
- Create an
apachemodule and create a resource default for theFiletype:
class apache {
File {
owner => 'apache',
group => 'apache',
mode => '0644',
require => Package['httpd']
}
package {'httpd': ensure => 'installed'}
}- Create
htmlfiles within the/var/www/htmldirectory:
$index = @(INDEX)
<html>
<body>
...
