On Fri, Jul 14, 2017, at 18:12, Luke Bigum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've come across an issue with how I want to write profiles vs how a
> module
> chooses to structure their default data. As an example,
> the choria-io/puppet-mcollective module uses hashes of in-module data for
> each configuration file (which is quite elegant, reduces the amount of
> templates needed). My issue with it is how I want to explicitly define
> some parameters for a profile I'm writing. If I set a few keys of the
> 'server_config' hash I end up overwriting the rest of the defaults in the
> module data, because an explicitly defined class param trumps the entire
> in-module data hash:
>
> **************************
> class { '::mcollective':
> server => true,
> client => true,
> server_config => {
> rpcauditprovider => 'choria',
> 'plugin.rpcaudit.logfile' =>
> '/var/log/puppetlabs/choria-audit.log',
> },
> }
> **************************
>
> I've got a solution by calling lookup() to get the original data
> structure,
> then doing a hash merge in Puppet code:
>
> **************************
> $default_data = lookup('mcollective::server_config')
> $my_data = {
> rpcauditprovider => 'choria',
> 'plugin.rpcaudit.logfile' => '/var/log/puppetlabs/choria-audit.log',
> }
> class { '::mcollective':
> server => true,
> client => true,
> server_config => $default_data + $my_data,
> }
> **************************
>
> Would anyone consider that a dumb approach? Are there better ways?
I have not really found a elegant solution, and I think the right way is
to stick this stuff in hiera on the mcollective::server_config key
rather than try and set it via the params.
You're not doing anything programatic about this data, so why not put it
in hiera?
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