Solution 2: “Use Fileshipper”, they (Tom 
) said. “It works”, they said. “It may ruin your nerves with assign_filters”, I say…
Steps:
- Create a CSV from the two curl calls and add a column header “hostgroup”
- add this file to a fileshipper source directory (don’t forget to handcraft imports.ini first
) - create import source with that file
- create sync rule with object_name = ${hostgroup}
That creates all groups in director!
I also tried to add an assign_filter there, but I need:
assign where "${hostgroup}" == "role_"+host.vars.role
but I could not convince director to create this…
It always created something with “contains” or “= null” or “in =” …
So I added a “groups” modifier to the hosts sync rule, which works at the end.
This is much nicer than the first puppet solution, but still not perfect…
What I really hate is the fact, that director tries to understand user provided filters and creates something unpredictable from that! Why not simply use the provided string and only replace ${variable}?