Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

Managing Environments with Git

Branches are a way of keeping several different tracks of development within a single source repository. Puppet environments are a lot like Git branches. You can have the same code with slight variations between branches, just as you can have different modules for different environments. In this section, we'll show how to use Git branches to define environments on the Puppet master.

Getting ready

In the previous section, we created a production directory that was based on the master branch; we'll remove that directory now:

puppet@puppet:/etc/puppet/environments$ mv production production.master

How to do it...

Modify the post-receive hook to accept a branch variable. The hook will use this variable to create a directory ...