On Dec 7, 2012 12:08 AM, "jcbollinger" <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 8:10:00 PM UTC-6, Pete wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
>
> You are missing that node variables are not globals, and in fact don't
even have qualified names. I strongly suspect that that is why Hiera is
not seeing them.
That explains a why location isn't seen.
I discovered later that hiera didn't seem to be using the facts either...
Do I need to do something else to allow hiera to see facts?
I am assuming if I can use facts I will work out how to set location as a
fact and just use it that way.
As an aside, are ENC variables global?
I have been tempted to use my freeipa server as an ENC using ldap.
I have also been tempted to have a go at writing an ldap backend for hiera
but that's another story...
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> There are several potential workarounds, among them:
> set the needed variable(s) at top-level, based on some sort of conditional
I was under the impression that node level variables were top level
variables but I am guessing I am wrong. Time to find some docs I guess. :)
> push all the contents of your node blocks into classes, so that the
variables in question become class variables
I am going to assume from that class variables are global because they have
qualified names?
> instead of creating a separate hierarchy level with a data file for each
value of (say) $environment,use a hash of hashes in the level below, with
the $environment values as the outer hash keys
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
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