Hi Puppet Users,
I have just started playing with Puppet and Hiera. I am curious if it is
possible to control how hiera does variable lookup within a module I am
creating to test it.
I have read through the documentation I can find on Hiera and Puppet however I
cannot find any documentation suggesting a way to it.
For the record these are the versions that I am using (taken from the
Puppetlabs Debian/Devel):
hiera (1.0.0-0.1rc3)
hiera-puppet (1.0.0-0.1rc1-1-g3e68ff0)
puppet-common (3.0.0-0.1rc3puppetlabs1)
puppet (3.0.0-0.1rc3puppetlabs1)
Essentially I would like to define a hiera.yaml file (just the hierarchy and
puppet datasource location) within my module and use it to clearly separate
Operating System differences to the default state. For example:
------==== {modulepath}/hiera.yaml =======------
:hierarchy:
- %{operatingsystem}
- defaults
:puppet:
:datasource: %{modulename}/config/
------===========------
So in my module directory I could have:
{modulepath}/config/debian.pp
{modulepath}/config/centos.pp
{modulepath}/config/defaults.pp
(It would be even better if in the file name somehow we could grip up similar
OS types, ie debian_ubuntu.pp)
I know that I can use puppet logic statements (case statements, if, ...) to set
variables per OS but I feel that it would be cleaner and clearer to separate
the OS specific stuff and it would be easier to update a module for a specific
OS and override something set in the defaults.pp file.
So is this possible or is this something that could be considered as a feature
request.
Thanks,
Peter.
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