The confine and commands methods are used to ascertain which providers are valid for the type, and the defaultfor method is used to indicate the default provider where there are multiple providers. Let's take a look at each of these methods.
Indicating the suitability of the provider to the type
by Jason Southgate, Ryan Russell-Yates
Mastering Puppet 5
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Authoring Modules
- Using a decent IDE and plugins
- Using good module and class structure
- Using the new Puppet Development Kit commands
- Validating your module
- Unit testing your module
- Staying on the lookout for code smells
- Working with dead code
- Using Puppet Forge
- Working with the community
- Writing great documentation
- Adding module dependencies
- Adding compatibility data for your modules
- Using the new Hiera 5 module level data
- Summary
- Roles and Profiles
- Summary of the pattern
- Profiles
- Profiles best practices summary
- Designing for use of the include keyword
- Using subdirectories for sensible, readable profile class groups
- Hiding complexity with parameters, defaults, and abstraction
- Deciding how to set the parameters for component classes
- Deciding to use either automatic class parameter lookup or the lookup function
- Profiles best practices summary
- Roles
- Summary
- Extending Puppet
- Custom facts
- Custom functions
- Types and providers
- Types
- Creating and distributing the type
- Adding the namevar special attribute
- Adding additional type properties
- Adding the optional ensure property
- Adding type parameters
- Setting property and parameter defaults
- Checking the input value with a validate block
- Checking the input value against a newvalues array
- Checking datatype compatibility with munge
- Using autorequire for implicit relationships
- Using arrays to assign a list of values to an attribute
- Using the desc method to add inline documentation
- Providers
- Types
- Summary
- Hiera 5
- Separation of concerns between code and data
- Introducing a frame for the environment
- A more complete hierarchy
- Hiera 5 summary
- Global, environment, and module layers
- Encrypted YAML backend
- Lookup function
- Debugging Hiera
- Beyond Hiera using Jerakia
- Jerakia advanced use cases
- Installing Jerakia
- Configuring Jerakia
- Creating your default Jerakia policy
- Using Vault as an encryption backend
- Installing and configuring Vault
- Unsealing Vault
- Enabling the transit backend
- Creating an encryption key
- Creating a policy for encrypting and decrypting
- Checking the encryption is working correctly
- Allowing Jerakia to authenticate with our Vault
- Configuring Jerakia for encryption
- Encryption-enabling our Jerakia lookups
- Jerakia advanced use cases
- Summary
- Managing Code
- Workflow
- Continuous Integration
- Extending Puppet with Tasks and Discovery
- Exported Resources
- Application Orchestration
- Scaling Puppet
- Troubleshooting and Profiling
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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