create db on seperate instance

[msadmn]

on a 2 instance install in AWS, (db/web) when using
db_host => 'my_remote_db',
create_db => true,
create_db_user => true,
Puppet will fail, as regardless of the $dbhost parameter will still try to connect locally.

Workaround:

Create the DB in the db manifest first using the mysql puppet module
mysql::db {'wordpress':
user => 'wordpress',
password => 'mypass',
host => 'wphost',
ensure => 'present',
require => File['/root/.my.cnf'],
}

You must also then use Vagrant Hostmaster plugin to update hoses file so web and db can communicate.

I never found the RC of why the db_host was ignored, but having read through the code, and the documentation being somewhat 'light' on this subject, i opted to workaround the issue.

[vladivanovic]

Adding to this, this issue still exists, trying to look into it and I noticed in acceptance/wordpress_spec.rb that there are still some things yet to be setup - is this correct?

i.e. I can see 4x lines saying it 'deploys a wordpress instance with a remote DB'
'deploys a wordpress instance with a pre-existing DB' etc

Any timeline on a fix?