Will this help?
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/lang_variables.html#parser-set-variables
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Brian Lalor
bla...@bravo5.org
On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Chad Huneycutt <chad.huneyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been following the various blog posts about the roles and
> profiles pattern for classifying hosts, and I like it. It doesn't
> provide a perfect fit for our infrastructure, but it is much better
> than the ad-hoc classification we do now. I have a couple of
> questions for those that use it, though:
>
> 1. Where are you putting your role classes and profile classes? A
> role module and a profile module makes sense to me, but it seems like
> something more tightly integrated with the Puppet DSL might be nice?
>
> 2. Assuming you have roles and profiles in modules, at what point do
> you specify the parameters to your modules? I am particularly
> interested in the answer to this question with regards to hiera. I
> find that I want to add roles and profiles to the hiera hierarchy, and
> I cannot come up with a way to do it.
>
> I think if hiera supported lookup by the class containing the hiera
> call, I could achieve what I want. For instance:
>
> class profiles::oneofmyprofiles {
> include myparameterizedclass
> }
>
> I would like to have a hiera.yaml like so:
>
> ---
> :backends:
> - yaml
> :hierarchy:
> - nodes/%{::hostname}
> - profiles/%{class_name}
> - common
> :yaml:
> :datadir: /etc/puppet/environments/%{environment}/data
>
>
> Am I just completely off-base?
>
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> Chad M. Huneycutt
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