Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Hiera 5 + Puppet 5 File Backend

2017-09-02 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 01/09/17 01:32, John Baird wrote: Henrik, I think the disconnect is coming from the fact that the documentation only goes so far.  In that, I mean, what should my lookup be from my manifest? Should my manifest be: $somefile = lookup('/etc/example.txt') and then specify the file_backend in

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Hiera 5 + Puppet 5 File Backend

2017-09-02 Thread John Baird
Henrik, I really appreciate your patience here, but I feel like there is something obvious that I am either not grasping or isn't spelled out in the documentation. Let's say I make a function called `lookup_file` which will do the File.Read in whatever manner I need. I can call that from my mani