Multiple consul::service with same name causes ArgumentError

[jsok]

I need to create multiple services with the same name (but unique ID) on the same agent, e.g. a service definition like:

{
  "service": {
    "name": "gateway",
    "id": "foo"
  }
}

{
  "service": {
    "name": "gateway",
    "id": "bar"
  }
}

So I created the resources:

consul::service { 'foo':
  name => 'gateway',
}

consul::service { 'bar':
  name => 'gateway',
}

And puppet (2.7) is failing with:

Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot alias Consul::Service[bar] to ["gateway"] at /etc/puppet/roles/app/manifests/gateway.pp:10; resource ["Consul::Service", "gateway"] already defined at /etc/puppet/roles/app/manifests/gateway.pp:10 at /etc/puppet/roles/app/manifests/gateway.pp:10 on node ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal

[solarkennedy]

Puppet does not allow duplicate resources to have the same name.

What if you did a PR that had a variable called "$service_name", which could still default to "$name" but would allow you to still set it?

[jsok]

Yep that's the exact fix I was about to PR :)

[EvanKrall]

:( you're right: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_resources.html#uniqueness

I thought when I wrote this code that only $title had to be unique.

[solarkennedy]

Yea I... also thought that it was just title. But I still get confused on the title/name distinction too.