All sounds very good...
Here’s what’s new:
* Hiera data keys can be namespaced
o (e.g. 'dns::nameserver': '8.8.8.8')
Namespace scoping is defiantly a massive improvement to Hiera - Im
curious how this affects back ends though... Will lookup("nameserver")
called from Puppet in a class called DNS be always mapped to
dns::nameserver and that value passed as the lookup key to Hiera and on
to whatever back end you're using? If so is that going to make existing
Hiera setups incompatible?
* Namespaced data will automatically populate class parameters
o (e.g. 'dns::nameserver' will be automatically looked up for the
$nameserver parameter when you include dns)
I currently try and achieve this with using blah/%{calling_module} in my
hierarchy and therefore class dns ( $nameserver=hiera("nameserver" )
will look for nameserver: in blah/dns.yaml which also adds some nice
grouping/separation for setups with many Hiera enabled modules - will
the use of %{calling_module} still be supportable?
Also - is there any indication that tying a lookup to a particular back
end may be supported at some point?
(http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12951)
Sounds like a lot of great new functionality though, looking forward to
testing it out!
Craig
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