Thanks for the suggestion. Looking for a non-existent key sounds like a
decent work around for now. Thanks a lot for the help! :)
Vaidik Kapoor
vaidikkapoor.info
On 1 October 2014 21:27, Nan Liu <nan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Vaidik Kapoor <kapoor.vai...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I am using masterless Puppet. And My situation is that I am using a
>> custom Hiera backend called hiera-regex. The process of using it is that
>> you have to have hiera-regex installed on your target machine.
>>
>> If sometime for some reason, hiera-regex is not installed, hiera still
>> looks up for the key in hierarchy and starts using that key which it was
>> not suppose to use in the presence of hiera-regex. Ideally, I would want
>> Puppet to exit when it does not find hiera-regex backend installed. But
>> as of now, Puppet only prints a notice() which can be easily missed and can
>> leave your node in an unwanted state.
>>
>> Is it possible to somehow configure Puppet/hiera for masterless setup to
>> not continue at all if hiera is configured to use a custom backend and that
>> backend is not installed?
>>
>> Here is my hiera.yaml file:
>>
>> ---
>> :backends:
>> - regex # this is the custom backend (hiera-regex)
>> - yaml
>>
>> :regex:
>> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera
>>
>> :yaml:
>> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera
>>
>> :hierarchy:
>> - "%{fqdn}"
>> - base
>>
>>
>> Expecting some help on this. I have posted the same question on
>> stackoverflow as well:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26133604/exit-puppet-when-hiera-backend-is-not-found
>>
>
> Perform a data lookup for a non relevant key that only exists in the
> hiera-regex backend or fail the catalog.
>
> if !hiera('hiera::regex') { fail('hiera-regex backend does not appear to
> be loaded') }
>
> Nan
>
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