Jira (HI-120) Allow wildcards in hierarchy

[Reinhard Vicinus (JIRA)]

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Reinhard Vicinus commented on an issue   Re: Allow wildcards in hierarchy I'm only another puppet/hiera user who stumbled upon your feature request and have no standing with puppetlabs whatsoever. But there are some problems I see with your request: 1.) Puppet multi master setups can generate different catalogs for the same node, because Dir.glob returns the files in an order dependent on the system it is run on. As far as i can tell, the result of Dir.glob isn't sorted in any way in your pull request, so on different masters the order can be different and therefore the hierachy. 2.) This change breaks all other hiera backends (yaml, etc) as far as I can tell. 3.) I can see only one valid use case for this behavior: To realize two or more independent projects on one node. I concede that this isn't possible at the moment, as far as I know, because it isn't possible to redeclare variables in puppet (with the exception, if all projects are configured in independent puppet modules the special variable %calling_module can be used in the hierarchy). I wrote my own puppet hiera connector to solve (among others) this problem. I considered your approach also, but discarded it because as the count of projects increase the performance will get terrible (for every hiera lookup up every time all projects have to be questioned). Also there is no hierarchy between independent projects, why create one? Add Comment   Hiera / HI-120 Allow wildcards in hierarchy It would be great to allow wildcards when defining the hierarchy in hiera.yaml. Example: In want to have a directory tree like this: hiera/project-name/common.json hiera/project-name/webservers.json But the number of projects is variable. So I want to define a hiera.yaml like: :backends:   - json :json:   :datadir: /tmp/pruebas-hiera/hie... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.