Greetings, I need help; I have been going in circles for too long now and I am sure it is something silly that I over looked. I am attempting to use environments with a new server build for Puppet 4 (never could get it working under the Puppet 3 series; but I never put /that/ much effort into it either). I have a lot of servers that I really don't want to manage by hand or manually set anything per server. I would much rather have the agent contact the puppet server to find out what group it should be in. Yes, there is documentation on this but I can't get it to work and almost all of my internet sleuthing has returned results for the old way of doing things which doesn't appear to be working with Puppet 4 and Hiera 3. Any help would be much appreciated.
My objective: Have a top-level hiera source that tells agents which environment to use for that host. Have hiera data in the environments provide further details (ntp servers and what not) for configuring the host. >From my understanding of this[1] it should work. I also found several online blog examples doing something similar but using the old puppet3 way of doing things. [1] https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/external_nodes.html Everything in the production environment works all the time with Hiera. No other environment works with Hiera calls. I have found it easier to test for the ntp configuration because unless the system and environment are "production", testing for the environment just gives 'nil' which doesn't tell me squat about what is wrong. At least asking for the ntp gives me errors to look at. :-) First, lets look at my top level hiera. Pretty default. You can see that I attempted to force the location for the yaml, but that didn't work either and I don't want _all_ the servers in the top level anyway. $ cat /etc/puppetlabs/code/hiera.yaml --- :backends: - yaml :hierarchy: - "nodes/%{::trusted.certname}" - common :yaml: # datadir is empty here, so hiera uses its defaults: # - /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/%{environment}/hieradata on *nix # - %CommonAppData%\PuppetLabs\code\environments\%{environment}\hieradata on Windows # - /etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata # When specifying a datadir, make sure the directory exists. :datadir: Now, lets look at the common file for the production environment. $ cat /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/hieradata/common.yaml --- ntp::servers: - 192.168.109.2 - 192.168.109.3 environment: 'production' $ puppet apply --certname=puppetmaster01.me.fqdn -e "notice(hiera('ntp::servers'))" Notice: Scope(Class[main]): [192.168.109.2, 192.168.109.3] Notice: Compiled catalog for puppetmaster01.me.fqdn in environment production in 0.43 seconds Notice: Applied catalog in 0.09 seconds Great! Hiera is working! Now lets move that common file to the top level so that we can specify which environment to use (again testing with ntp so we get more than just 'nil' back). $ mv /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/hieradata/common.yaml /etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata/common.yaml $ puppet apply --certname=puppetmaster01.me.fqdn -e "notice(hiera('ntp::servers'))" Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not find data item ntp::servers in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at line 1:8 on node puppetmaster01.me.fqdn I found a blog that said the puppetserver has to be restarted after every yaml change (I think that is /way/ off base as that hasn't been quite my experience) but even doing a restart doesn't change the outcome. Where I am stuck: * I can't get any host to work with any environment except "production". Nothing seems to work. Not hiera, nor puppet agent -t. The host just isn't found. * I can't get the top level hiera to provide any details to the agent. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/0ba7a983-10be-4e37-9ead-73f184be5476%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
