On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Peter Brown <rendhal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 December 2012 21:10, Vaidas Jablonskis <jablons...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 December 2012 02:10:00 UTC, Pete wrote:
>>> On 4 December 2012 21:17, Vaidas Jablonskis <jablo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> One last question.
>>> I use a node level variable to specify the location of a node.
>>> I use this for setting variables specific to that location like different
>>> puppet master ip and nagios ip for the office and such.
>>> I want to use that variable in hiera for the same purpose.
>>> I have this in my hiera.yaml file.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> :hierachy:
>>> - %{::clientcert}
>>> - %{::environment}
>>> - %{location}
>>> - virtual_%{::is_virtual}
>>> - common
>>> :backends: yaml
>>> :yaml:
>>> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata
>>>
>>> it gets data from the common.yaml file but is seems to not get anything
>>> from any of the other files.
>>> it's definitely using the datadir because thats where the common.yaml
>>> file is as well as the rest of the data files.
>>> Am I missing something?
>>>
>> When you specify variables in hiera.yaml configuration file, then they are
>> facts, not actual Puppet variables. So in this case you have it wrong.
>>
>> Instead of %{::environment}, use %{environment}, because a fact is always
>> going to be a top scope variable.
>
>
> That doesn't seem to work either...
> I tried putting in another entry called extra (no var just the name) and it
> didn't get used either.
> So it's like it's not using anything that isn't called common.yaml
>
> So my guess is it's not the variables it's something else.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
> Or some docs I can dredge through?
hiera generates great traces if you enable it. I *think* you enable
debug on the master to turn it on, but there might be something else
you have to do. If all else fails, the code is actually pretty
straight-forward...
--
Chad M. Huneycutt
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