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.
Questions tagged [hiera]
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dynamic values inside hiera classes
below is my common.yaml file
---
classes:
- home_setup::falcon_logical_name
home_setup::falcon_logical_name::user: 'falcuat'
home_setup::falcon_logical_name::group: 'falcgrp'
home_setup::falcon_logical_name::env:…
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Puppet not pulling Hiera value
Learning Puppet and Hiera and I've run into a roadblock. I apologize in advance if this is something simple. Given the following files within my GitLab for the PuppetClass es_strat:
hiera.yaml
---
version: 5
defaults:
data_hash: yaml_data
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Tronyx
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how do create puppet file directory resource using variable in the name so that it does not add brackets around the name []
When I try the following in my manifest.
$profile = hiera('duplicity::profile', 'test123')
file { [ "/tmp/${profile}" ]:
ensure => directory,
owner => root,
group => root,
}
I have the following defined in the heira for that…
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Puppet/hiera : generate sereval files from one template
I'm running puppet 4 and I would like to generate several config files from the same template with different configurations for each one.
for example :
# cat /tmp/a.conf
test1
# cat /tmp/b.conf
test2
And I need to put all those informations in…
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RedHat Satellite/Katello and Hiera
I'm using RedHat Satellite 6.1.1, and am successfully syncing Puppet modules from a local forge into the Katello part of Satellite.
However, I'm not sure how to go about syncing my Hiera data.
Obviously I'd like to leverage the lifecycle management…
shearn89
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failing to look up hiera-file value from puppet
I'm in the process of upgrading an old puppet 2.7 installation to puppet 3.8, and I've also been shuffling the location of some of hiera's data. I'm not sure which is to blame here.
puppet agent --test, run on the same system running the…
mc0e
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Puppet - using hiera parameters in a top scope manifest file
I have a site.pp file which looks like this:
Package {allow_virtual => false,}
stage { 'pre': before => Stage['main'] }
stage { 'post': require => Stage['main'] }
resources { 'firewall': purge => true }
node default {
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Using hiera to include modules in example42/apache
I'm trying to set up a puppet configuration for work (open source version), and my goal is to create a sort of standard class that most of our servers could just use with a simple hiera_include in the manifest.
I'm trying some apache puppet modules…
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Puppet: How to fix "Unknown function hiera_include"?
I've installed Puppet using the foreman-installer and it installed successfully.
Then, I wanted to install Hiera as I have some modules which use hiera functions so I've installed hiera and created a relevant hiera.yaml file in /etc/puppet which…
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Disable Puppet ENC part in Foreman
I looked for this for days now, and I'm quite depressed. We want to use Foreman as a monitoring and provisionnig tool. We would like to deactivate Foreman's ENC and use only Hiera. How could I manage that?
As to the why:
my boss wants it like…
Sukiyakijango
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How do dynamically get the hostname of another machine in hiera?
I have a few machines, one of those has the class dbserver assigned via ENC.
The other machines run software which need the DB. Now I want to configure this software to be able to connect to the DB. I usually prefer to use the hiera autolookup…
sinned
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Linux-Puppet: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server, what could be the reason?
I've wrote a Puppet module which is supposed to create a directory, copy files into there and change the ownership of the files.
The module name is "workspace".
In the manifests folder of the module there are three files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9578…
Itai Ganot
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How to return default hash keys in hiera_hash() call?
In an attempt to clean up my client's Hiera data for Puppet, and drastically reduce the number of Hiera calls in the Puppet manifests, I'm changing constructs like
some_name::key1: a_value_1
some_name::key2: a_value_2
[...]
some_name::keyX:…
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Install of hiera-puppet-1.0.0-1.el6.noarch conflicts with file from package puppet-3.7.1-1.el6.noarch
Installing puppet and hiera
sudo rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6.4/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-6-11.noarch.rpm
sudo yum update -y
sudo yum -y install vim unzip rubygems puppet puppet-server hiera-puppet git
results in:
Resolving…
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Hiera datatypes wont load in Puppet
I have spent a couple of days on this, followed the instructions on http://downloads.puppetlabs.com/docs/puppetmanual.pdf and even the Puppet Training Advanced Puppet manual.
When I run a test against it, the results always come back as 'nil' and Im…
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