Are you running PE 3.4.2? I don't think it came with Hiera 1.3 bundled (the
version that supports nested Hiera calls). Calling hiera from the command
line won't necessarily use the same hiera gem PE is using. This bit me a
few times when I was exploring using PE last year.
On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 7:09:19 AM UTC-8, James Oden wrote:
>
> I had two puppet modules that needed the same data, so I tried to define
> the data once in hiera and then refer to the first definition via the
> hiera() function. When I did this as soon as puppet began loading the
> module that used one of these variables it hung. I checked using the
> hiera CLI and it could actually resolve the variables just fine. When I
> changed the the hiera file to not use variables but instead copied the
> actual strings wherever needed it, puppet worked just fine. Also, I did a
> mixed solution where one of the modules had static data and the other did
> the hiera lookup, and it got further but hung on the module that was doing
> the lookups.
>
> Here is the hiera data I'm referring too:
>
> dns1: '10.135.82.132'
> dns2: '10.35.249.52'
> dns3: '10.35.249.41'
> dns_search1: 'us.blah.com'
> dns_search2: 'labs.nc.blather.com'
> resolvconf::nameserver:
> - "%{hiera('dns1')}"
> - "%{hiera('dns2')}"
> - "%{hiera('dns3')}"
> resolvconf::search:
> - "%{hiera('dns_search1')}"
> - "%{hiera('dns_search2')}"
> vagrant-dns::device: 'enp0s3'
> vagrant-dns::dns1: "%{hiera('dns1')}"
> vagrant-dns::dns2: "%{hiera('dns2')}"
> vagrant-dns::dns3: "%{hiera('dns3')}"
> vagrant-dns::search: "%{hiera('dns_search1')} %{hiera('dns_search2')}"
>
> I am using puppet 3.4.2.
>
> Is this a known problem? Am I doing something stupid? I tried
> googling for this but came up nil.
>
> Thanks...James
>
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