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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Puppet: Nagios with regex node names
I am configuring a puppet master and want to rely heavily on hiera. Many of my systems will be almost identical due to being scalable.
I have therefore created node manifests which use regex rather than having individual node configurations for each…
Jacob Tomlinson
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Need help writing a wrapper for Hiera yaml data
This post seems like it might be helpful but I haven't been able to adapt it to my needs. The meat of it is:
$custom_thing = ('custom_thing',{})
create_resources(param, $custom_thing)
full post on serverfault
Here is my Hiera…
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Hiera concatenated lookup from yaml
I am trying to configure the puppet-logstash module via Hiera. When I make the call to hiera('profiles::logstash::config'), the return value is a concatenated string. It tells me that it cannot convert a String into a hash.
shipper.pp
class…
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Puppet, hiera and erb - erb would not recognize array
I have a pretty annoying error I am desperate to fix. I have a puppet module where certain things are kept in a yaml file (hiera) so that people could quickly edit just that part.
The structure is nested.
The template like this:
<%=…
Roman Grazhdan
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Plan lookup: Could not find class
When running a Puppet plan that uses lookup{} function against Hiera I get the error:
The target node: 'computer1.domain.com' errored with a message: Internal Server Error: org.jruby.exceptions.RuntimeError: (PreformattedError) Evaluation Error:…
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hiera.yaml is not loading on vagrant provision
Whenever I provision vagrant all the data is nil. When I ssh in and specify /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml as the config option i can get the values. How can I get vagrant to use the right hiera.config file?
# Enable the Puppet…
user227759
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Return yaml value to puppet fact lookup
I'm trying to resolve a YAML value in a module
file { '/boot/config.txt' :
ensure => present,
mode => '0755',
content => $::hostname?{
'serverName1.domain' => template('template1'),
default => template('template2'),
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Dave Shaw
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Puppet noob, stuck on the same error for hours
I'm trying to setup a puppet master with hiera.
When I try "puppet agent --test" on the mongo node I get this error.
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with…
Alex
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