Templates

- [Lecturer] In order to set the install directory…we need our minecraft.service file…to be dynamically generated.…Templates allow you to be more flexible…in how your text files are defined.…And you can use things like facts, variables and parameters…to change the output.…First we'll copy the contents of…the minecraft.service module.…So I'll go to site, minecraft, files, minecraft.service…and I'll just select this and copy it.…Then I want to paste this into a template…so I'll go back to the root of my module…and then create a new file called templates…minecraft.service.epp.…

And then I'm going to paste the contents…of the service file.…eep is the puppet template format.…And puppet also supports ruby erb style templates…but they can be a bit more confusing.…The eep syntax is pretty simple.…We can just go in and replace this install directory…with an epp tag.…So we'll start with a less than symbol,…and a parentheses, then the equal sign.…Then we'd say $install_dir which is the variable…name we'll be using, then a percent and a greater than.…