On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:42 AM, Vaidik Kapoor <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am using masterless Puppet. And My situation is that I am using a custom
> Hiera backend called hiera-regex. The process of using it is that you
> have to have hiera-regex installed on your target machine.
>
> If sometime for some reason, hiera-regex is not installed, hiera still
> looks up for the key in hierarchy and starts using that key which it was
> not suppose to use in the presence of hiera-regex. Ideally, I would want
> Puppet to exit when it does not find hiera-regex backend installed. But
> as of now, Puppet only prints a notice() which can be easily missed and can
> leave your node in an unwanted state.
>
> Is it possible to somehow configure Puppet/hiera for masterless setup to
> not continue at all if hiera is configured to use a custom backend and that
> backend is not installed?
>
> Here is my hiera.yaml file:
>
> ---
> :backends:
> - regex # this is the custom backend (hiera-regex)
> - yaml
>
> :regex:
> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera
>
> :yaml:
> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera
>
> :hierarchy:
> - "%{fqdn}"
> - base
>
>
> Expecting some help on this. I have posted the same question on
> stackoverflow as well:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26133604/exit-puppet-when-hiera-backend-is-not-found
>
Perform a data lookup for a non relevant key that only exists in the
hiera-regex backend or fail the catalog.
if !hiera('hiera::regex') { fail('hiera-regex backend does not appear to be
loaded') }
Nan
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