Thanks for your reply John, > As much or as little information about the hosts as is wanted can be put > in the one big hash, so host information does not need to be split up. If > everything went into one hash then removing info for a host would involve > removing one block of lines from one file. That's only a little less > convenient than removing a single file, and it could be automated > relatively easily. > > That might be a nice workarround.
Please understand that I don't have any stake in what approach Daniele > chooses. I am not advocating for a particular approach, nor asserting it > superior over any other that also achieves the desired result, but I do > hope that Daniele and others who may read this thread will base their > decisions on solid reasoning. > > same here > > >> >> > Certainly data duplication should be avoided, and that could be aided by > putting all information for each host into a single hash for that host. > Those per-host hashes could equally well (for this purpose) appear in > separate YAML files or all together as values in a larger hash in one YAML > file. > > true, > > >> I suppose you're suggesting another function similar to hiera_hash(), in >> that it provides the result in the form of a hash that associates the data >> from each yaml with a key that corresponds to the filename. Hmm, where did >> I see such a data structure described before? >> > no idea, enlighten me ;-) > > Inasmuch as you can achieve the output you want now, by structuring your > data the way you want it in the first place, I think this is by no means a > must-have feature. If the mode of file organization you describe would be > of such high value to you, however, then Hiera supports pluggable > back-ends, so you can easily add that capability. You could probably get > 80% of the way there by deriving your custom back-end from the current YAML > back-end. > Well, I think it is a must-have feature. Just by adding an option, you won't force anyone to actually use it should one not want that off course. Best regards, Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/OmH27hXfNIQJ. 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.
