On Monday, 18 June 2012 13:02:33 UTC+2, Peter wrote:
>
> Hi Puppet Users,
>
> I have just started playing with Puppet and Hiera. I am curious if it is
> possible to control how hiera does variable lookup within a module I am
> creating to test it.
>
>
>
> I have read through the documentation I can find on Hiera and Puppet
> however I cannot find any documentation suggesting a way to it.
>
>
>
> For the record these are the versions that I am using (taken from the
> Puppetlabs Debian/Devel):
>
> hiera (1.0.0-0.1rc3)
>
> hiera-puppet (1.0.0-0.1rc1-1-g3e68ff0)
>
> puppet-common (3.0.0-0.1rc3puppetlabs1)
>
> puppet (3.0.0-0.1rc3puppetlabs1)
>
>
>
> Essentially I would like to define a hiera.yaml file (just the hierarchy
> and puppet datasource location) within my module and use it to clearly
> separate Operating System differences to the default state. For example:
>
>
>
The hiera.yaml file is the global configuration for all paths, however it
could contain a
path of
/etc/puppet/modules/%{module_name}/config/operatingsystem
/etc/puppet/modules/%{module_name}/config/defaults
> ------==== {modulepath}/hiera.yaml =======------
>
> :hierarchy:
>
> - %{operatingsystem}
>
> - defaults
>
>
>
> :puppet:
>
> :datasource: %{modulename}/config/
>
> ------===========------
>
>
>
> So in my module directory I could have:
>
> {modulepath}/config/debian.pp
>
> {modulepath}/config/centos.pp
>
> {modulepath}/config/defaults.pp
>
>
>
> (It would be even better if in the file name somehow we could grip up
> similar OS types, ie debian_ubuntu.pp)
>
>
>
Look at the "osfamily" fact, this debian on ubuntu and redhat.
> I know that I can use puppet logic statements (case statements, if, …) to
> set variables per OS but I feel that it would be cleaner and clearer to
> separate the OS specific stuff and it would be easier to update a module
> for a specific OS and override something set in the defaults.pp file.
>
>
>
> So is this possible or is this something that could be considered as a
> feature request.
>
>
So it's possible but you can't distribute the hiera.yaml with your module
since this is a site setting.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Peter.
>
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