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Hiera is able to read yaml files based on facts, .e.g. if facter domain returns dev.example.com and a dev.example.com.yaml file exist the file is read and the key-values are used. Using hiera can reduce the number of Puppet code lines.

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converting node inheritance to hiera

I'm working on moving over a node inheritance tree to hiera. Presently working on the hierarchy. Prior to hiera, my nodes had a hierarchy as such base pre-prod qa nodes staging nodes development nodes prod …
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Hiera can't find puppet environment

I'm testing out hiera and hitting a snag on the hierarchy configuration. What I have is extremely simple, the part that isn't working is specification of hiera datadir files based on environment. Here's the config file (/etc/hiera.yaml) I'm…
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Handling exceptions for modules in Puppet

I have an LDAP module in Puppet that is used by 100 servers and edits about 10 files on all servers, before it runs authconfig --updateall to activate the new LDAP configuration. Most (98) of these servers needs a standard access-1.conf as their…
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How to use Hiera to assign modules to nodes in Puppet?

I have decided to switch from a single default nodes.pp to a Hiera back-end to manage nodes in Puppet and assign modules to nodes. We use hostnames as such: nyc-apache-prod-01 was-mysql-tst-01 This is our hiera.yaml and hierdata-directory…
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puppet parameterized classes and hiera

I'm running puppet open source 3.1.0 from the puppetlabs repos on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and using hiera 1.1.2. I'm running into what seems like either a bug or a fundamental misunderstanding on my part of how hiera works with parameterized…
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How to use puppet-apache mod (v8.3.0) with hiera?

Queston: Using the roles & profiles method, is it possible to use 'puppetlabs-apache', '8.3.0' with a hiera lookup? Context: I am using mod 'puppetlabs-apache', '8.3.0' to configure an apache server. I have a large number of apache re-write rules…
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Puppet Class Lookup from Hiera with Automated Chaining

I am using hiera with puppet and have a puppet role/profile setup, where 1 role includes multiple profiles (as shown below). My build role includes hardcoded profiles with a number of chains at the bottom. # build.pp - Current Role class role::build…
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Puppet : call define type in class from hiera

I would like to create install_package module which can be called multi times, where packages are defined in hiera. I know class is skelton (can be called one time), and define type is designed for my purpose. I have developped the following…
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puppet best practices: share variables among profiles

I'm using the roles&profiles approach for my current puppet project. The puppet best practices tell me: Expose all necessary profile parameters in the main class parameter list. Perform hiera lookups to fill in those parameters (having default…
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create textfile in puppet from hiera list

I have a hash with a list in hiera. I use this to automatically create the dbs in the RDBMS via create_resources dbs: - dbname: something - dbname: or - dbname: other I would like to use this same list to automatically create a plain text…
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puppet 6 template variable from hiera can't be retreived

I'm having problem when migrating the puppet code from puppet 3 to puppet 6. This is the error message: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function…
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How do you test/troubleshoot hiera in a Puppet environment

I'm using Puppet alongside Foreman to provision hosts, and I've currently got all of Puppet config as modules in a repository. I'd like to use Hiera but I've never been able to get even the simplest thing to pull from one of the .yaml files that I…
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Q: How to define Apache modules via Puppet and Hiera?

I am currently using Puppet with Foreman 1.17 and puppetlabs/apache version 3.1.0. All virtual hosts are defined using a .yaml file: apache::vhost: vm12345_ssl: servername: my.example.com docroot: /home/my.example.com/web logroot:…
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Puppet 5 : Variables not interpolated

I'm trying to update an old Puppet 3 infrastructure to Puppet 5. I'm using Hiera to get the data, with a NoSQL backend. I've written my own ENC in order to get node data from there, and this is working well. However, when I put variables in Hiera,…
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Encrypting properties with "eyaml edit" without a private key?

I would like to use eyaml edit to edit my Puppet/Hiera configuration files. My configuration files are a mixture of encrypted and plain text content. I want to use eyaml edit to encrypt certain properties. So initially my files will contain…
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