Today looking for a solution to this I came up with a nice solution. I know
this is old but I'm posting it just in case is useful for somebody:
on hiera.yaml:
:hierarchy:
- 'host/%{::domain}/%{::hostname}'
- 'domain/%{::domain}'
- 'role/%{system_role}'
- 'common'
on site.pp
node defaul
you might want to explicitly top-scope role, ie.
$::role = 'nameserver'
Not sure if that will matter in this case, but I don't think it can hurt.
As an aside, we set our role variable with facter.d on the nodes
themselves, as we don't have hostnames that easily work out to roles.
On Wednesday,
