Hey Justin, Interesting stuff. I just deployed a consul cluster for the purpose of DNS - and we haven't yet used the key/value store or the hiera backend.
This is less of a question on your gem, but more on your use case that I'm interested in. When you say you automatically push values to your consul - do you mean a dev can create a json file or the json file is pulled from somewhere and propagated in a CI/CD type process? I guess you made me curious on your automation pipeline and if this is something you leverage in that process. On Thursday, 31 March 2016 07:58:37 UTC-6, Justin Rowles wrote: > > For those who would like to expand their use of Hiera to talk to a Consul > server/cluster, British Gas Connected Home have made available a gem called > bgch-hiera-consul on rubygems. > > It derives from lynxman's hiera-consul, but works somewhat differently. > > It fulfils the hiera_hash and hiera_array functionality, and does all > parsing of data in Consul value stores for you. Thus you can embed > (currently) json or yaml directly and bgch-hiera-consul will populate your > hiera variables (and thus puppet class parameters) for all of the sub > entries. > > We use this, currently, for our development clusters, where we want to > have a quick turnaround in our puppet process. Instead of editing yaml > files, we can manually or automatically push values to our Consul store, > and puppet will pick them up on the next run. > > Source and sample code are at > https://github.com/ConnectedHomes/hiera-consul > > Any feedback, whether in questions, PRs, or complaints, will be > appreciated. > > Justin. > -- 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/ee0e75b6-ace3-498d-a343-8cfdb7812bee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
