[Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-10-15 Thread Alex Scoble
I couldn't get hiera integrated with PE 3.0.1 to work with nested hierarchies, so this is what my hierarchy looks like: :hierarchy: - defaults - %{clientcert} - %{domain} - %{osfamily} - %{environment} - global Regards, Alex On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:30:16 PM UTC-7, Larry Fast

[Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-03-25 Thread Klavs Klavsen
I use Netgroups (with LDAP as backend) to group my nodes. Netgroups is an old NIS thing, which works beautifully. You can group hosts, and each netgroup, can contain other netgroups, users or hosts. This way, a host can be a member of several netgroups - and I use netgroup membership to

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-03-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:22:19PM -0700, Aaron Mills wrote: The biggest pain point for us is that having hiera + puppet in the same repo feels like extra work. If they're going to live together, why even use hiera? Why not just set variables at the node level? For me, here are some reasons

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-03-24 Thread Peter Brown
On 25 March 2013 10:12, Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.orgwrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:22:19PM -0700, Aaron Mills wrote: The biggest pain point for us is that having hiera + puppet in the same repo feels like extra work. If they're going to live together, why even use

[Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-03-22 Thread Aaron Mills
Late to the party, but wanted to add my $.02 We also keep hiera, manifests, and modules in a single repository at the moment. Since we use dynamic environments for development (as outlined here: https://puppetlabs.com/blog/git-workflow-and-puppet-environments), we also have a node-level

[Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-03-21 Thread Larry Fast
Hi Andy, I guess my most important request for Hiera 2 is diagnostic information. It's probably a broader request for better diagnostics in puppet as a whole. Here's what I dream of ... 1. The ability to run Puppet on the puppetmaster using the cached Facts from a server. 2. A postmortem