On Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:36:01 PM UTC-6, waycoolme wrote: > > I am confused, it was my understanding that hiera is necessary on all of > the agent nodes with puppet 3.0 > However, after reading the docs, they seem to indicate this is not the > case... > > Would someone kindly verify this requirement for me? > > My understanding is now that we do NOT need to install hiera on the agent > nodes. > Is this correect? > > Hiera is used during catalog compilation, therefore the master requires it, as does the "apply" face. The agent does not compile catalogs, so in principle clients do not require hiera. On the other hand, now that hiera is integrated into the core, it may depend on how you install Puppet whether you even have an option to omit it.
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