On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Douglas Garstang
<doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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