I'm not noticing the problem, but maybe it would help to see some other code. I just uploaded my mounts module to github. It has one place that uses a function from Example42, but that can be replaced with a normal hiera call.
https://github.com/snemetz/Puppet_mounts I have a few modules that use this method, but I need time to document and clean them up a bit, before releasing them. Mounts is one of the simpler ones. Steven Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 20:15:55 -0800 From: rai...@gmail.com To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] hiera query yaml parameters When trying to separate user information in a yaml file, I encounter two issues. 1. when I use the yaml file in init.pp under my user account module, it gives following errors. ssh_user_hash is the assigned in class as "$ssh_user_hash = hiera(ssh_users)"===root@vm1:/etc/puppet/manifests# puppet apply --verbose nodes.ppInfo: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/puppet_vardir.rbInfo: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/facter_dot_d.rbInfo: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/pe_version.rbInfo: Loading facts in /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/lib/facter/root_home.rbWarning: Could not retrieve fact fqdnWarning: Unrecognised escape sequence '\!' in file /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp at line 12Warning: Host is missing hostname and/or domain: vm1Error: ssh_user_hash is not an hash or array when accessing it with user1 at /etc/puppet/modules/plm-accounts/manifests/init.pp:41 on node vm1 Error: ssh_user_hash is not an hash or array when accessing it with user1 at /etc/puppet/modules/plm-accounts/manifests/init.pp:41 on node vm1=== 2.if I move the hiera output to node.pp, it can run on host vm1, which is my puppet master with yaml file on it. But it can't run on other puppet client server as it says can't find yaml file.===Error: Could not find data item ssh_users in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes.pp:1 on node vm2 === Here is my yaml file and init.pp in my user module file.#more /var/lib/hiera/OpsUser.yaml---ssh_users:user1 : FullName : "User1" additional_groups : "adm" shell : "/bin/bash" gid : 1003 uid : 1003 pwhash : "$1$E7OvghG0$OmZMtTbQ2uYf5GA5u7RSH1" ssh_key : type : "ssh-rsa" key : "AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIBqOaxEVoWs69JM1H5jpzW7JvIwuanN4VW7F+uDVI1sii6BjROmYgYCvVoH+9/c3K5MNxqk35DHlFffgFk0b3o24Qa4RZZgxnUPTxsRIScaHQlr4/flYw643zVSwBpiEdBUfpRincUiaYfy6SCPu3aiKRyFgxZ6VByExrbHLwsz5w==" comment : "us...@yahoo.com" root@vm1:/var/lib/hiera# more /etc/puppet/modules/plm-accounts/manifests/init.pp class plm-accounts { #exec { #"/bin/echo user1:abc123 | /usr/sbin/chpasswd": #onlyif => "/bin/egrep -q '^user1:\!:' /etc/shadow", #} $ssh_user_hash = hiera(ssh_users) $user_keys = keys($ssh_user_hash) notice (" keys are $ssh_user_hash" ) if is_array ($user_keys) { add_users { $user_keys: } } define add_users { $user_uid = $ssh_user_hash[$name][uid] $real_name = $ssh_user_hash[$name][FullName] notice ( "$user_uid is $real_name ") plm-accounts::virtual { "$name" : uid => $user_uid, realname => $real_name, }plm-accounts::add_ssh_key { $name : key => "${ssh_user_hash[$name][ssh_key][key]}", type => "${ssh_user_hash[$name][ssh_key][type]}" } }} On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 12:00:25 PM UTC-5, roadtest wrote:you are right again:-) For people who are new to puppet, here is the installation instruction - http://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/stdlib. stdlib is built in Puppet Enterprise and needs to be installed for community version. cheers, carl On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 11:28:46 AM UTC-5, Steven wrote: keys comes form the PuppetLab's stdlib module So does is_array and a bunch of other nice functions Steven Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 07:12:45 -0800 From: rai...@gmail.com To: puppet...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] hiera query yaml parameters Steven, thanks for your reply! You are right. It is unnecessary using create_resource to query yaml parameters. It can be done directly as following: $sshd_hash = hiera(os_users)$server_ssh_keys = $sshd_hash[$username][ssh_keys][key] format of my os_users yaml file was not correct, that is why it failed me. Btw, there is no keys function in puppet. Cheers, carl On Sunday, February 3, 2013 10:21:25 PM UTC-5, Steven wrote: You can read the hash directly, create_resource is not needed (may or may not be desired) $user_defs = hiera('os_users') will give you the full hash What I tend to do for this type of data structure is: $user_defs = hiera('os_users') $user_keys = keys($user_defs) if is_array($user_keys) { process_users { $user_keys:; } } define process_users { # Do whatever you want for each element of the hash # $name will be the hash key # $user_defs[$name] is the hash of the current item # $user_defs[$name]['comment'] to access the user's comment field } Steven From: yg...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] hiera query yaml parameters Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:19:25 -0500 To: puppet...@googlegroups.com Could you show your solution, please ? I would like to see how you did it. On Feb 3, 2013, at 6:46 PM, roadtest wrote: I figure out the solution. Using the create_resource to convert YAML to a hash array, then I can query retrieve every individual value. If there is better way, feel free to share with group. carl On Saturday, February 2, 2013 3:25:33 PM UTC-5, roadtest wrote:Hello, I have a yaml data file containing user account with following information.#more users.yaml---os_users: user1: locked: false comment: System Operator uid: '700' gid: '700' groups: - admin - sudonopw sshkeys: - ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwLBhQefRiXHSbVNZYKu2o8VWJjZJ/B4LqICXuxhiiNSCmL8j+5zE/VLPIMeDqNQt8L user2: locked: true comment: Test Locked Account uid: '701' gid: '701' groups: - admin - sudonopw sshkeys: - ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwLBhQefRiXHSbVNZYKu2o8VWJjZJ/B4LqICXuxhiiNSCm I can search os_users information like following:#hiera -c /etc/hiera.yaml os_users{"user1"=>{"groups"=>["admin", "sudonopw"], "locked"=>false, "comment"=>"System Operator", "uid"=>"700", "sshkeys"=>["ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwLBhQefRiXHSbVNZYKu2o8VWJjZJ/B4LqICXuxhiiNSCmL8j+5zE/VLPIMeDqNQt8L"], "gid"=>"700"}, "user2"=>{"groups"=>["admin", "sudonopw"], "locked"=>true, "comment"=>"Test Locked Account", "uid"=>"701", "sshkeys"=>["ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwLBhQefRiXHSbVNZYKu2o8VWJjZJ/B4LqICXuxhiiNSCm"], "gid"=>"701"}} My question is how I can get value of os_users -> user1 -> sshkeys. 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