Since it's such a core component, I have added the type you suggested to my site.pp manifest and it works just fine. Is there a better place for it?
Thanks for your help! On Friday, December 5, 2014 7:55:46 AM UTC-5, Andy Taylor wrote: > > Hiera is just a source of data - you need to have Puppet manifests/modules > which interpet the data and act on it. > > You can achieve installation of packages from Hiera data by using defined > types and the create_resources function: > > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/definedtypes.html > https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#createresources > > Basically you need to create a defined type which includes a package > resource. Once you've done that you can use the create_resources function > to pass the Hiera data to the defined type and install the packages. > > The defined type would look something like this: > > define hiera::packages ( $ensure ) { > > package { $title: > ensure => $ensure > } > > } > > and then the create_resources call would look like this: > > $packages = hiera('packages') > > create_resources(hiera::packages, $packages) > > Hope that helps, > > Andy > > On Thursday, 4 December 2014 21:00:34 UTC, Brantley Hobbs wrote: >> >> Hi all! >> >> I'm very new to puppet. I have installed a puppet master which >> successfully sets the IP address and manages sudo on a couple of nodes. >> >> I'm using Puppet 3.7 with Hiera, and so far I haven't had to write any >> manifest files, apart from the one that pulls in Hiera. As far as I can >> tell, this is a best practice. >> >> Now I would like to manage packages on my agents. I assume that in the >> node specific Hiera file, I should be able do something like the following: >> >> packages: >> apache2: >> ensure: installed >> >> However, nothing gets installed. I know I'm taking too simplistic of an >> approach, but I'm not sure where to start digging. Most things I've found >> say that I need a "wrapper class" to read in the Hiera data and install the >> packages. Is there no way to install packages purely from hiera? I've >> found some modules that propose to do this, but so far I can't get them to >> work. I'd like to do this without additional modules if possible; it seems >> like a pretty basic operation. >> >> Thanks! >> Brantley Hobbs >> > -- 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/10043ef4-c808-4908-b156-4b8569592598%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
