Question

I have been tasked with templating MySQL’s my.cnf in an attempt standardize the configuration amongst the slave databases using Puppet. Right now, I’m targeting the innodb settings.
Are there configuration options that can safely be calculated against hardware specifications such as memory, disk and procs?

Answer 1

You need facter.

puppet:/etc/puppet/modules/master/lib/facter$ cat disks.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
#require 'facter'

mount = `/bin/mount`
disks=Array.new 
mount.split("\n").each_with_index { | disk,i |
  unless disk.scan(/ext3|simfs|reiserfs|xfs/).empty?
    d=disk.split[2]
    disks.push d
    disks.push ','
 end
}

Facter.add('disks') do
 setcode do
   disks
 end 
end 

`
and in puppet.pp i use facts $disks

#add disk check to zabbix
exec { "create_host":
    command => "/bin/echo $fqdn $ipaddress $disks | do_work",
    require => File["/root/ticket"],
    subscribe => File["/root/ticket"],
    refreshonly => true,
}

see “Adding Custom Facts to Facter” on puppet labs.