Hi Chadwick, I'll definitely look a it soon, but can you explain what the lines do?
What would key_name be? Thanks! On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8:01:34 AM UTC-4, Chadwick Banning wrote: > > 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 >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/749872aa-e882-41e4-a82d-94d5b31545c3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
