To add: there's a reason for this - you are likely running the command line tool on the master, where facter output does not match what it would be when evaluating a client.
So you are essentially saying "for a client that looks like X, what would hiera tell me?" One thought would be to write a quick script to grab the cached facts for a node and turn the relevant ones into hiera parameters, then use this to run hiera against an individual host. -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Eric Shamow wrote: > Hiera as a command line tool is unaware of the $::operatingsystem variable > available to Puppet as a fact. So when running through puppet, > operatingsystem would be a known value, but when running through the command > line, you need to specify whatever information hiera needs to parse. > > -Eric > > -- > > Eric Shamow > Professional Services > http://puppetlabs.com/ > (c)631.871.6441 > > > On Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:49 AM, windowsrefund wrote: > > > $ cat /etc/hiera.yaml > > --- > > :hierarchy: > > - %{operatingsystem} > > - common > > :backends: > > - yaml > > :yaml: > > :datadir: /tmp/hieradata > > > > $ cat /tmp/hieradata/Debian.yaml > > --- > > kitty : 'Handsome' > > > > $ cat /tmp/hieradata/common.yaml > > --- > > kitty : 'Evil' > > > > $ facter operatingsystem > > Debian > > > > $ hiera -d kitty > > DEBUG: Thu Feb 09 10:09:01 -0500 2012: Hiera YAML backend starting > > DEBUG: Thu Feb 09 10:09:01 -0500 2012: Looking up cat in YAML backend > > DEBUG: Thu Feb 09 10:09:01 -0500 2012: Looking for data source common > > Evil > > > > $ hiera -d kitty operatingsystem=Debian > > DEBUG: Thu Feb 09 10:46:20 -0500 2012: Hiera YAML backend starting > > DEBUG: Thu Feb 09 10:46:20 -0500 2012: Looking up cat in YAML backend > > DEBUG: Thu Feb 09 10:46:20 -0500 2012: Looking for data source Debian > > Handsome > > > > Shouldn't Debian.yaml take priority over common.yaml though? Not sure > > why I need to pass operatingsystem=Debian in as an argument to hiera > > > > Best, > > Adam > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
