Over the last couple years R.I. Pienaar has attacked the problems of storing and separating data and logic in Puppet and other tools. He started with the extlookup function (which was merged into Puppet in the 2.6.x release series) a simple file-based hierarchical data store.
He then tackled the problem with Hiera: a simple pluggable Hierarchical Database. Hiera is a significant enhancement over extlookup, comes with a much closer integration to Puppet than extlookup and supports a wider variety of data sources. We're thrilled to announce that Arri has decided to pass the Hiera project into the custodianship of Puppet Labs. From a license perspective nothing changes - Hiera remains free, open source and licensed under Apache 2.0. Puppet Labs will be taking on the patching, management and development of Hiera going forward. We'd also like to merge Hiera into Puppet core as extlookup was but we don't want to reduce its utility as a standalone tool and so we're still considering the best approach to take. We'd welcome input from the community on this. If you have tickets or issues to raise about Hiera please log them at: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/hiera The Hiera code is now located at: https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-json Please feel free to email the list or me directly if you have any questions about this. Thanks James Turnbull -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
