Hi Brad,
On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:30:11 PM UTC, Brad Ison wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using dynamic environments, one per Git branch, similar to
> what's described here:
>
> http://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments/
>
> I've come to really like that workflow, but I'm struggling with how
> best to integrate it with Hiera. In addition to short lived dynamic
> branches, I'll have some longer lived ones that feed into master
> (production), e.g. staging, dev, etc.
>
I am using the very same workflow.
>
> My hierarchy has traditionally looked something like this:
>
> - 'environments/%{environment}/%{location}',
> - 'environments/%{environment}',
> - 'global'
>
> What's the best way of having new environments pick data from the
> right spot in the hierarchy without having to cram everything into the
> global / common root?
>
Your hierarchy data store is outside your environment, here is what mine
looks like:
:backends:
- yaml
:hierarchy:
- %{fqdn}
- %{role}_role
- %{pop}
- global
:yaml:
:datadir: /etc/puppet/environments/%{environment}/hiera/
So if I push a new feature to branch new_feature, I get Puppet environment
"new_feature" which has it's own copy of the Hiera data store with all my
new_feature related Hiera keys in it. When it comes to environments my data
follows the same branches and "versions" of my code, and when I merge code
into my main line production branch the matching Hiera keys go along with
it.
Hope that helps,
-Luke
> For example, if I branch off of dev, creating a new environment called
> 'new_feature', only 'global' would be in scope unless I explicitly
> copy the dev data to 'new_feature.yaml', which feels wrong.
>
>
> Am I approaching this all wrong? Any advice?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
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