Jira (HI-46) Hiera should support alternate environments

[David Chute (JIRA)]

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David Chute commented on HI-46   Re: Hiera should support alternate environments Henrik Lindberg I'm not sure I understand the use-case for PUP-1640 , other than I can see why a module developer wants a tidy way to specify defaults for values otherwise loaded from hiera. But to me that seems separate from the environment issue. But in any case, with a puppetmaster per environment you do not need to support multiple concurrent environment data in hiera. You simply have multiple hiera sub-directories, one for each environment, and 'switch on' the needed sub-directory with a soft link. Directories; ... /etc/puppet/hiera/dev1 /etc/puppet/hiera/dev2 /etc/puppet/hiera/ci /etc/puppet/hiera/pre-prod /etc/puppet/hiera/prod ... Hiera config; ... :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera/active-environment ... Soft link; ln -s /etc/puppet/hiera/pre-prod /etc/puppet/hiera/active-environment Some might consider this with a puppetmaster per environment a workaround for this ticket. But I think it should be the standard way to deploy puppet. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- 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/d/optout.