[Puppet Users] Accessing other parts of the Hiera tree

2013-06-16 Thread Robin Lee Powell
This seems to come up for me a lot. As an example, my Hiera data includes both hypervisors and the VMs that they contain. It would be very useful to have the VMs say "I'm a VM on host X" and, in templates in host X, be able to say "What are all my VMs?". Doing this via storeconfigs rather defeat

[Puppet Users] how to access hiera data from a custom provider?

2013-06-16 Thread Schofield
Using puppet 3.0, is there a proper and standard way to retrieve data from hiera in either the a custom type or custom provider implementation? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing (and pinning) package versions with puppet

2013-06-16 Thread Jakov Sosic
On 06/15/2013 12:06 AM, Andres Olarte wrote: > I have an installation that I'm trying to manage with puppet. For some > of the packages we want to have very tight control over the versions. > Since they are critical to our application, we only upgrade them after > testing in our test environment, a