Thanks for the reply. I'll probably start migrating things to the new 
"parameter" based lookup and a disk based hierarchy anyway, but it's good 
to know that my setup probably won't break immediately upon upgrading. ^_^

On Friday, October 5, 2012 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Nick Fagerlund wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, October 5, 2012 10:47:58 AM UTC-7, Ellison Marks wrote:
>>
>> I've been using Hiera and Hiera-Puppet with Puppet 2.7 for a while now, 
>> and I've been quite enjoying it. I just noticed the available update for 
>> Puppet and saw that Hiera was now part of core Puppet. However, I've been 
>> unable to parse exactly what parts made it over...
>
>
> Yeah sorry, I'm working on clarifying that today.  The answer is: ALL OF 
> IT, but you might have to move your config file or change a setting. 
>
> - Puppet has a hiera_config setting that defaults to $confdir/hiera.yaml. 
> It won't fall back to hiera's default conf file. If your conf is at 
> /etc/hiera.yaml, move it or tell puppet.conf where it is. 
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#hieraconfig
> - The hierarchy itself works the same, including fact interpolation. 
> - All four hiera functions are still there. No need to change their names.
> - The "puppet" backend is still there! That's one that we were planning to 
> remove at one point, and I don't yet have the whole story on how that went 
> down, but it did stay in. Or at least, it's in the source code; I don't 
> know how packages and gems deal with it, yet. 
> - The generic "lookup" function didn't happen. The built-in "data_binding" 
> code currently only applies to class parameters; we left an expansion of it 
> for a later date, once we have a deeper understanding of users' needs and 
> challenges.
>

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