Jira (HI-295) When using hiera to create_resources for puppet, allow to pass puppet template function

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on HI-295   Re: When using hiera to create_resources for puppet, allow to pass puppet template function How about organizing the data so that the files are represented by a hash that is deep merged. You then lookup the "set of files" to operate on and iterate - do not use create_resources since you can do the same with puppet code using future parser/4.x. If you are on 4.x you should use lookup to be able to control deep-merge per key. For 3.x with future parser: hiera_hash('files').each |$name, $template| { file { $name: content => $template }} You probably want the template evaluated, and not the name of the template (the examples above do that). hiera_hash('files').each |$name, $template| { file { $name: content => template($template) }} You can have additional things in the looked up hash, but where you want to transform the template key, this can be done by using the template as a default value for 'content' unless the looked up hash has explicit content set. The 'template' entry is removed as it is not a known attribute of File. hiera_hash('files').each |$name, $attributes| { $attr_values = $attributes - 'template' file { default : content => template($attributes['template']) ; $name: * => $attr_values } } If you are on 4.x you can easily write a function to transform the attributes - the result would be something like this: hiera_hash('files').each |$name, $attributes| { file { $name: * => transformed_attributes($attributes) } } Your transform attributes function would check if 'template' is given, and if so set content based on that. If you are using EPP, you could also specify the arguments to the template. The future parser/4.x already has a lot of functionality to allow building things like this and 3.x is soon EOL - hence the "won't fix". Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.13#64028-sha1:b7939e9) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.