On Dec 23, 11:33 am, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Ryan Stewart <zzant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm new to Puppet, and I'm a software developer, not a sysadmin, so be > > gentle. I have puppet managing some files via templates, and one of > > the template variables that needs to be plugged in is a password of > > sorts that shouldn't be generally available. In particular, it can't > > be stored in the manifest, as that's stored in version control, and > > the password shouldn't be available there. Basically, the only place > > it's okay for this password to be stored is on the systems that will > > be using it. > > > What would be the "Puppet way" of getting this string into the > > configuration? > > http://www.craigdunn.org/2011/10/secret-variables-in-puppet-with-hier... > > Does that help? > > I've done this in the past without hiera, where you have a function that > runs on the master to decrypt the content out of version control, but the > above makes it pretty simple. > That helps a lot, though I had no idea what hiera was before you said it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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