Hi Alex,

that sounds definitely very interesting, especially for our coworkers that
aren't that deep into puppet and for which unerstanding hiera regularly is
the most complicated part of the setup. Some questions and remarks:

* Have you thoght about integrating support for hiera-enc?
* Some kind of git commit function for the changes done would be a neat
feature. This would certain parts of our coworkers to stay completely in
this kind of editor as they probably only interact with hiera data. If you
are interested I have some ideas how this could be implemented in a safe
and convenient way.
* Is there support for changing a value at every depth of the configured
hiera hierachy?
* Does this include module-level data directories?
* Are you aware of jerakia (http://jerakia.io/). We don't use it yet but
are considering it to be able to use our "hiera" data from ansible too. But
I think it's a very interesting project.
* Is the hieraresources part optional? We don't want to use hiera to define
arbitrary resources as it would work around the way we define roles and
profiles.

So thank you for starting this, we are definitely interested in what
progress you will make.

Best regards
Karsten

Am Di., 8. Jan. 2019 um 18:57 Uhr schrieb desertkun <desert...@gmail.com>:

> Hello, everyone.
>
> I have made a small useful open source project for Puppet/Hiera, so I hope
> you can excuse me a bit of advertisement of it for greater good.
>
> https://github.com/desertkun/hiera-editor
>
> Basically it takes editing Hiera configurations to a new level.
> It parses modules with puppet-strings to extract class information like
> field names, types and doc strings, and retrieves default values of class
> fields
> by doing best-effort compilation (with puppet-parser) of Puppet AST on
> your machine. So no more typos and less of "commit-deploy-check" cycles.
>
>
>
> The goal of the project is to help manage servers with Puppet to those who
> far away from the back-end, including Puppet itself,
> like "I need to deploy nglinx but I have installed debian for the first
> time". So if you have a project that complex that requires Puppet to deploy
> it, having some
> tool to introduce Puppet to end users of your project might improve the
> learning curve.
>
> Would really appreciate any input on the idea, including concerns like
> "there's no need for this" as I just have made the project public and still
> not sure if I should continue.
>
> Regards.
>
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