Puppet - exclude file from management for managed directory

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I have a couple Splunk servers in house which I manage part of the configuration through puppet. These are residing on CentOS 6 boxes.

My definition is set up as

file{ "/opt/splunk/etc/apps": recurse => true, purge => true, force => true, source => "puppet:///modules/splunk/$hostname/apps", ensure => present, mode => 755, owner => splunk, group => splunk, notify => Service["splunk"] }

This works well, but I'd like to exclude the saved searches file at /opt/splunk/etc/apps/myapp/local/savedsearches.conf from being overwritten and / or automatically update the copy contained within Puppet with the version kept on the local server.

Is there a ready way to do this? I looked over the documentation and didn't see anything.

I figured it had to be a typo, but just wanted to make sure I didn't do something stupid. :) — EEAA
– EEAA, Commented May 11, 2012 at 16:00

ewwhite · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-15 23:11:18Z

You can add ignore => "savedsearches.conf" to the file stanza to exclude it from operations on the managed directory.

file{ "/opt/splunk/etc/apps": recurse => true, purge => true, force => true, source => "puppet:///modules/splunk/$hostname/apps", ensure => present, mode => 755, owner => splunk, group => splunk, ignore => "savedsearches.conf" notify => Service["splunk"] }

Documented at docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#file — François Beausoleil
– François Beausoleil, Commented May 12, 2012 at 3:46

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