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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes
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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes

by Thomas Uphill, John Arundel, Neependra Khare, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using host resources

It's not always practical or convenient to use DNS to map your machine names to IP addresses, especially in cloud infrastructures, where those addresses may change all the time. However, if you use entries in the /etc/hosts file instead, you then have the problem of how to distribute these entries to all machines and keep them up to date.

Here's a better way to do it; Puppet's host resource type controls a single /etc/hosts entry, and you can use this to map a hostname to an IP address easily across your whole network. For example, if all your machines need to know the address of the main database server, you can manage it with a host resource.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create an example host resource:

  1. Modify your ...
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