Hi chaps, thanks for your responses.
Running puppetmaster in debug mode fixed the problem, as a side effect.
I hadn't appreciated that after editing /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml
puppetmaster needs to be restarted - I thought that file would be read
each time hiera grabs a variable.
TL;DR: I turned it off and on again ;)
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 05/03/13 07:34, Denmat wrote:
Hi,
You can run the master in debug mode and it will show you where puppet is
looking for the hiera files.
Give it a whirl,
Den
On 04/03/2013, at 22:49, Jonathan Gazeley <[email protected]>
wrote:
I'm setting up Hiera in my multi-environment puppetmaster for the first time.
I've written /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml, defined the hierarchies and created a
couple of data files with sample data in them. When queried from the
commandline, it works:
[jg4461@puppet ~]$ hiera -d -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml motd::banner
environment=netops_jg4461
DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Hiera YAML backend starting
DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Looking up motd::banner in YAML backend
DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Looking for data source netops_jg4461
DEBUG: Mon Mar 04 11:42:29 +0000 2013: Found motd::banner in netops_jg4461
MOTD BANNER for NETOPS
However, when I try to reference this variable in a manifest with syntax like
this:
class motd {
file { 'motd':
name => '/etc/motd',
mode => '0644',
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
content => hiera('motd::banner'),
}
}
It fails with this error:
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
Could not find data item motd::banner in any Hiera data file and no default
supplied at
/home/jg4461/PUPPETROOT/environments/common/modules/motd/manifests/init.pp:7 on
node ******.bris.ac.uk
My hiera.yaml points to the right location (the puppet dev environment is being
served from my homedir on the puppetmaster but all hiera data is stored in
/etc/puppet/hiera, with the production puppet environment).
What kind of things should I be looking for here?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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