Thanks for the suggestion. Looking for a non-existent key sounds like a decent work around for now. Thanks a lot for the help! :)
Vaidik Kapoor vaidikkapoor.info On 1 October 2014 21:27, Nan Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACqVBqCf%2BnF9wFp-5Q4rWMZ%2B5wHNjxeLbdpxr_G%2BMRTkUMTM8A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACqVBqCf%2BnF9wFp-5Q4rWMZ%2B5wHNjxeLbdpxr_G%2BMRTkUMTM8A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACWtv5%3DPAmrp9C_UAbS_JSvztitFVdn7e4q9THEA7TG2p9pEfg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
