On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:11 PM, hai wu <haiwu...@gmail.com> wrote: G'day.
> Maybe I am missing something major, but why we would need to install > both hiera and hiera-puppet packages on every puppet nodes (including > client)? My understanding is that hiera is just for backend data, and > is only needed on puppetmaster .. Hiera is the library that underlays the Data/Model Separation feature in Telly. You are mostly right, in that it is only used during compilation of a catalog - we use it while we work through the manifests and turn it into things we can act on. What you have missed is that `puppet apply` also uses the compiler, and transforms manifests into catalogs, then applies them - just like the master and agent do, but on a single system. One of the supported, core ways to run Puppet is without a master. It is an important goal that you can always use `puppet apply` to do anything that `puppet agent` can do, without needing a central master. That means that anywhere puppet *apply* is installed requires Hiera - and that is part of the same package that includes the Puppet agent. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
