Issue #8235 has been updated by d. johnson.
To make this work smoothly, I think we need a two-iteration cycle. During the first cycle, hiera would be purely optional. This is where documentation would be updated and puppetlabs modules updated to make use of hiera. BCP would be updated here to reflect what the current best practice involves. Hiera modules for common back-ends would need to be populated here to include cvs, mysql, pgsql, sqlite, yaml (all of which exist today, but not in a common unified branch). The second cycle is where it would be enabled by default. At this stage, hiera would no longer be an optional component in the default configuration. Default configuration could still be simple yaml files to prevent pulling in excessive dependencies. This would allow for legacy systems to update their code without any unexpected surprises, and give all the system administrators time to plan out their manifests to make the best use possible out of hiera. ---------------------------------------- Feature #8235: There should be a plugin system for tools like hiera https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8235#change-61477 Author: Luke Kanies Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review Priority: Normal Assignee: Kelsey Hightower Category: parser Target version: Telly Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/718 Arri's new extlookup replacement, Hiera (https://github.com/ripienaar/hiera), is exactly the kind of system we want to add to Puppet, but we don't want to hard-code the connection. The connection between the tools is relatively simple - I've got an example in my prototype/2.7.x/hiera_integration branch and the diff for the integration is 67 lines - but the plugability really needs to be present before this is added. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
