You either need a appconfig/manifests/init.pp class, or you can make use of
stdlib::manage class and add the defined type to hiera
See examples in https://dev.to/betadots/puppet-is-yaml-2e32
> On 28. Aug 2023, at 21:23, Ben Parry <the.benpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Puppeteers,
>
> I am bashing my head against a wall try to call a custom defined resource (I
> think that's the right terminology) from Heira.
>
> I've created a class (appconfig) and within that I have used Puppet PDK to
> create a define to create an application config file (loadconf). It works
> perfectly if I call the code from a Puppet manifest, like so;
>
> appconfig::loadconf {
> '/etc/myapp/config.conf':
> tcpport => 443
> loglevel => debug }
>
> It's pretty much identical to the Puppet supplied example;
>
> https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/lang_defined_types.html
>
> The problem is I want separate my data from the puppet code. I am using
> Hiera (5) and when I add what I think should be in the YAML for calling my
> custom resource it does NOTHING! No Error message, nothing it just completes
> normally without calling my custom resource. My Hiera YAML document looks
> something like this;
>
> ---
> classes:
> - appconfig
>
> appconfig::loadconf:
> /etc/myapp/config.conf:
> tcpport: 443
> loglevel: debug
>
> I have no idea why this is not being evaluated. I have also tried using a
> 3rd party module to load with no results just message saying no such
> resource. I used this module (which is excellent!);
>
> https://forge.puppet.com/modules/southalc/types
>
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