Re: [Puppet Users] Inserting Data back into hiera

2014-03-18 Thread Xav Paice
On 19/03/14 17:11, Spencer Krum wrote: > > so far about 99% of our use cases have > been taken care of by exported resources and PuppetDB > > > > Where controlling a system that is well modeled by puppet resources, > host entries in /etc/hosts for example, exported resources work well. > I

Re: [Puppet Users] Inserting Data back into hiera

2014-03-18 Thread Spencer Krum
> > so far about 99% of our use cases have > been taken care of by exported resources and PuppetDB > Where controlling a system that is well modeled by puppet resources, host entries in /etc/hosts for example, exported resources work well. I find myself often wanting to just pick up strings and u

Re: [Puppet Users] Inserting Data back into hiera

2014-03-18 Thread Xav Paice
On 19/03/14 16:40, Spencer Krum wrote: > Hello, > > The other day I was on IRC and someone asked how to export strings in > PuppetDB. As far as I am aware this isn't possible with PuppetDB. It > is possible with certain hiera backends. > > I've created a hiera_insert module at > https://github.com/

[Puppet Users] Inserting Data back into hiera

2014-03-18 Thread Spencer Krum
Hello, The other day I was on IRC and someone asked how to export strings in PuppetDB. As far as I am aware this isn't possible with PuppetDB. It is possible with certain hiera backends. I've created a hiera_insert module at https://github.com/nibalizer/hiera-insert. This module only has one