On 10 September 2014 08:08, Daniel Siechniewicz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This particular hiera backend, from what I understand, is extracting
> values from puppetdb "on the fly", so you don't have to put any values
> in hiera yaml/json files save for a relevant puppetdb query. This
> would centralize data gathering and localize it to a "data component".
> Otherwise you end up with puppetdb queries within your manifests which
> could be not what you want. Then again, this really depends on your
> preferences. Good luck and tell us if this worked for you.
>
> It looks like it's designed to deal with facts and classes only.  I really
need something that can get data from resources (defined types).  It's
crappy design, but I could move *some* of the global variables defined in
my type's module into facts to make those available, but I don't see a
decent way to get data out of the resources, so I don't think it solves the
whole problem.

Thanks for the suggestion though.. this looks like it could be very useful
to simplify a couple other things I've been looking at.

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