I also use one environment per git branch. But I use a custom fact that
returns production/testing etc and then use that in the hiera hierarchy
instead of the puppet environment.
On Jan 9, 2013 7:43 PM, "Brad Ison" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Luke Bigum <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > :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.
>
> Thanks, Luke.
>
> I guess it does make sense to leave the environments out of the
> hierarchy in this case. I had considered that, but was worried about
> constant merge conflicts when promoting things up the chain. There
> will be some things that will always be different between dev and
> prod. I suppose there are other ways around that though that make more
> sense. I may be inventing a problem I don't really have.
>
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