Jira (PUP-7479) ENC-enforced environment makes `puppet lookup` environment simulation difficult

[Gary Larizza (JIRA)]

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Gary Larizza created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7479 ENC-enforced environment makes `puppet lookup` environment simulation difficult Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: PUP 4.9.4 Assignee: Henrik Lindberg Components: CLI Created: 2017/04/27 11:28 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Gary Larizza The use case here is that we're trying to move people away from using the `hiera` binary to simulate/debug lookups to using `puppet lookup`. With `hiera` you could pass environment variables that matched whatever "variables" were in hiera.yaml to simulate what Puppet would provide, so doing: `hiera testkey environment=test` would allow us to simulate this lookup in the test environment. When we tried doing that with: `puppet lookup testkey - environment test` we found that we were still getting values from the production environment. This is because `puppet lookup` (even without using ` -compile`) will pull down a node object for whatever node is being targeted, and that means it's going through paths of indirection and ultimately the ENC. If the ENC is enforcing an environment, then `puppet lookup` is bound to that environment. In our case above (using the Console), setting the node to a nodegroup enforcing "Agent-specified environment" allowed us to simulate a lookup in another environment properly. I'm marking this as an "Improvement" instead of a bug, but the reality is that it's a pretty major use-ability issue because being able to simulate lookups decoupled from the ENC is a pretty common exercise for people debugging Hiera data. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- 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.