Depending on what you are trying to do, using facts in your datadir
can achieve a similar purpose:
:yaml:
:datadir: /etc/puppet/environments/%{environment}/data
So you in essence have a different hierarchy per environment.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:43 PM, llowder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, January 31, 2013 8:38:34 AM UTC-6, Schofield wrote:
>>
>> I am evaluating Hiera for use in our puppet setup to handle overrides
>> based on facts. Unfortunately the documentation is slim
>> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15295. I am wondering if it is
>> possible to have multiple hierarchies and be able to choose which hierarchy
>> to use when calling the hiera functions from a module?
>>
>> My line of thought is that operational concerns for configuring the
>> network/OS/middleware is independent from application environmental
>> concerns. For example when configuring the OS I care if if the node is in
>> the DMZ or a specialized firewall'd network segment. I don't care if the
>> node is going to be used for dev/test/qa/production release path of the
>> applications. The opposite is true when installing applications. I don't
>> care about the network since it should already be setup and the OS services
>> should already just work. I do care if I am in dev/test/qa/production so I
>> can configure the application properly for that environment. So I would
>> like to keep the overrides for network/OS/middleware separate from the
>> application level overrides.
>
>
> If you call hiera like $somevalue = hiera(key, default, source) (not sure
> that is the best name for the 3rd argument) it will, for that call only,
> override the hierarchy and inject 'source' at the top of the hierarchy.
>
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