Manage /etc/hosts file.

Description

This module manages /etc/hosts from a template. You can also use it to add host entries.

Parameters

• host_ip
• host_name
• host_fqdn - the host's fully qualified domain name
• hosts_entries - a list of hosts entries as shown below

Usage

hosts

Replace /etc/hosts with the template file

include hosts

Replace /etc/hosts with the template file, configured with parameters

class { 'hosts':
    host_ip       => '192.168.170.120',
    host_name     => 'myserver',
    host_fqdn     => 'myserver.mydomain.com',
    hosts_entries => [
      "192.168.170.169 anotherdomain.com",
      "192.168.170.170 exampledomain.com"
    ]
}

Authors

Vinícius Teles

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Dennis Hoppe for several ideas extracted from his own Hosts Puppet module.

License

This Puppet module is released under the MIT license:

• http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT