hosts module

Manage host entries.

Can ensure entries for localhost, localhost6, and $::fqdn, including aliases and optionally purge unmanaged entries.

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Compatibility

This module has been tested to work on the following systems with the latest Puppet v3, v3 with future parser, v4, v5 and v6. See .travis.yml for the exact matrix of supported Puppet and ruby versions.

It should work with any *nix based system that uses /etc/hosts.

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Parameters

enable_ipv4_localhost

Boolean to enable ipv4 localhost entry

• Default: true

enable_ipv6_localhost

Boolean to enable ipv6 localhost entry

• Default: true

enable_fqdn_entry

Boolean to enable entry for fqdn

• Default: true

use_fqdn

When enabled use the ${::fqdn} fact to determine the hosts entry for the local node.

• Default: true

fqdn_host_aliases

String or Array of aliases for fqdn

• Default: $::hostname

localhost_aliases

String or Array of aliases for localhost

• Default: [ 'localhost', 'localhost4', 'localhost4.localdomain4' ]

localhost6_aliases

String or Array of aliases for localhost6

• Default: [ 'localhost6', 'localhost6.localdomain6' ]

purge_hosts

Boolean to optionally purge unmanaged entries from hosts

• Default: false

target

String for path to hosts file

• Default: /etc/hosts

collect_all

Boolean to optionally collect all the exported Host resources

• Default: false

host_entries

Hash of host entries

• Default: undef

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Hiera example of host_entries

---
hosts::host_entries:
  'servicename.example.com':
    ip: '10.0.0.5'
    host_aliases:
      - 'servicename'