I need to create a bunch of ssh_authorized_keys resources. The resource expects its key-attribute to be the public key itself -- there is no way to refer to a file containing the key.
Because the keys are very long and because I already have them in files, I'd rather Puppet read them from the files instead of me quoting them in the manifest.
I can imagine a few other use-cases too.
Is there already a function to read a specified file verbatim, without attempting to interpret them as template() does?
For public-keys I can, actually, get away with template(), but that carries an overhead of a parsing-attempt. Also, in some other cases, depending on the file's contents, the parsing may, actually, "fail" or, worse, not fail, but quietly alter the contents...
Is there already a function to read a specified file verbatim, without attempting to interpret them as template() does?
The file() function will read and return the contents of a file on the Puppet master (or wherever the catalog's being compiled), similar to template() as you described.
Call it with a path such as ssh_keys/foo.key to load the file ssh_keys/files/foo.key within the modulepath.
Note that this function requires Puppet 3.7 or higher to load from the modulepath in the same way as template(). Prior to that it only worked with absolute paths, though has been in every major release.
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