I looked at the PR (https://github.com/camptocamp/puppet-postfix/pull/50)
to add "Hiera support" and it appears that it just add some parameters that
take hashes that are used to auto-generate instances of defined types. I
wouldn't call this "Hiera support", I'd just call it "convenience
parameters".
There's no reason you couldn't just do this on your own in a profile (or
anywhere else):
$configs = hiera('<key_name>')
create_resources('postfix::config', $configs)
On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 1:56:59 PM UTC-4, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using camptocamp/postfix for my postfix configuration. I originally
> defined all my configs manifests but now I would like to change to using
> hiera. Unfortunately, this module doesn't support hiera for some of the
> configs, so I must define many parameters in the manifests. I wanted to
> use hiera for simplicity, but also because I have a very nice use case: I
> have one SMTP front-end with its own specific configs (anti-spam/virus),
> and a series of regular hosts. Traditionally, all hosts that are in the
> same subnet as the Exchange server would use it as relayhost and all the
> other hosts use the smtp front-ends. Therefore, here's what I did:
>
> hiera.yaml:
>
> ---
> :backends:
> # - regex
> - yaml
> :yaml:
> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera
> #:regex:
> # :datadir: /var/lib/hiera
> :hierarchy:
> - "host/%{fqdn}"
> - "domain/%{domain}"
> - "env/%{::environment}"
> - "os/%{operatingsystem}"
> - "osfamily/%{osfamily}"
> - "networks/%{network_ens192}"
> - "virtual/%{::virtual}"
> - common
>
> This way, I define the exchange server as relayhost for the exchange
> network in /etc/puppet/hiera/networks/192.168.155.0.yaml, and set the smtp
> frontend as relayhost in /etc/puppet/hiera/common.yaml.
>
> However, since I can't put all the settings in hiera, I must put some in
> the class declaration for the smtp frontends. When I declare the postfix
> class in both my default profile and in the smtp frontend profile, I get an
> error saying that the class cannot be declared twice (Class[Postfix] is
> already declared; cannot redeclare at
> /etc/puppet/manifests/nodes/smtp_postfix_servers.pp:19)
>
> Another solution would be to declare the profile in all my roles, but it's
> far from perfect.
>
> Is there a simple solution?
>
> I guess that I could do an if based on ipaddress in my default profile,
> but I wanted to use hiera as much as possible. Yes I created an issue to
> ask for full hiera support.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ugo
>
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