On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Hibbert <andrew_hibb...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking into hiera particularly the http backend > (https://github.com/crayfishx/hiera-http). > > I'm wandering when using hiera if a single lookup is done at the start of > the puppet run or if everytime a value needs to be looked up the file is > accesed or in this case the http api queried?
Hiera will pass the query to the backend on every lookup. In the particular case of hiera-http (since 1.3) you can enabling caching to reduce the number of HTTP API queries using the cache_timeout and cache_clean_interval flags. Regards Craig -- 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/CACxdKhG23q%2BeG0qzgUW1Rrx1kcrf93s4sGjBmJ5DdMO7nL0e7Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
