On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Douglas Garstang
<doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Stephen Gran
> <stephen.g...@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 21:00 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>> I know I did this once before but can't find docs on how to do it again.
>>>
>>> I have this in a yaml file:
>>>
>>> pvdisks:
>>> ec2_pvdisks_m1.small:
>>> disks: /dev/xvdb1
>>> enabled: yes
>>>
>>> Loading it with hiera.
>>>
>>> Manifest has:
>>>
>>> $testkey = hiera('pvdisks')
>>> notice ("TESTKEY=$testkey[ec2_pvdisks_m1.small]")
>>>
>>> This is printing
>>> TESTKEY=ec2_pvdisks_m1.smalldisks/dev/xvdb1enabledtrue['ec2_pvdisks_m1.small']
>>
>> Try inspecting it some other way than printf debugging - notice always
>> flattens variables by calling .to_s on them, so it is not a very useful
>> tool. I am assuming that things are indeed fine, but this is confusing
>> matters.
>
> I've since learned that I have to use hiera_array and hiera_hash,
> which aren't documented anywhere.
>
> Now I've got:
>
> ec2_config:
> instance:
> m1.small:
> pvdisks:
> - /dev/xvdb1
> swapvol_size: 2G
> logvol_size: 64G
> m1.medium:
> pvdisks:
> - /dev/xvdb1
> swapvol_size: 2G
> logvol_size: 64G
> m1.large:
> pvdisks:
> - /dev/xvdb1
> - /dev/xvdc1
> swapvol_size: 4G
> logvol_size: 64G
>
> and I've tried to access the data every witch way.
>
> This gives me a syntax error...
> $pvdisks =
> hiera_array(ec2_config['instance'][$::ec2_instance_type]['pvdisks'])
>
> and this:
> $pvdisks =
> hiera_array($ec2_config['instance'][$::ec2_instance_type]['pvdisks'])
>
> gives me:
> err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
> SERVER: ec2_config is not an hash or array when accessing it with
> instance at /truth/sauce/env/prod/modules/role/manifests/base_server.pp:27
> on node gfs01.us1.xxx.com
>
> Ugh.
>
> Doug.
Actually, apparently, no, that's not what these functions are for. :(
Doug.
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