On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Joshua Hoblitt <jhobl...@cpan.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:11:18 AM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On May 16, 8:51 pm, Joshua Hoblitt <jhobl...@cpan.org> wrote:
>>
>> > as that would
>> > preclude ::dev and ::prod being included on the same node.
>>
>>
>> why do you say that? That might become the case if you discovered
>> other, similar requirements, especially going the other direction, but
>> you could do what you describe with inheritance without
>> preventing ::dev and ::prod from both being included. Example:
>>
>> class users::common {
>> user {
>> 'alice': uid => 501, gid => 501;
>> 'bob': uid => 502, gid => 502;
>> }
>>
>> group { 'special-access': gid => 99 }
>> }
>>
>> class users::dev inherits users::common {
>> user { 'charlie': uid => 601 }
>> Group['special-access'] {
>> members => 'bob'
>> }
>> }
>>
>> class users::prod {
>> user { 'dave': uid => 701 }
>> }
>>
>> [snip]
>
>> # shouldn't be a problem:
>> node hybrid {
>> include 'users::common'
>> include 'users::dev'
>> include 'users::prod'
>> }
>>
>> In order for this to work for me both ::dev & ::prod would need to
> inherit from ::common and extend the same group definition. Without some
> sort of multiple inheritance support that would end up with a Group type
> declared twice or am I missing something?
>
> > I understand
>> > that heira is good at dealing with this sort of situation. Is there
>> some
>> > magic way of looking up data in heira without dumping foreman as an
>> enc?
>>
>>
>> No magic is required just for that. Hiera and Foreman themselves are
>> pretty much orthogonal. A bit of magic might be needed if you want to
>> use Foreman to set values that Hiera will provide, but that's what
>> hiera-foreman claims to do.
>>
>> It sounds like I need to look further into Hiera...
>
another option would be to consider foreman smart variables.
Ohad
>
> -Josh
>
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