Re: [Puppet Users] Is hiera broken in FOSS Puppet 3.7.2?

2017-09-26 Thread Peter Berghold
I was afraid that would be an answer I got... :-) There are plans to move to Puppet 4 where I know all this works but given I have to support all this on RHEL 6.x there may be some obstacles there. I would LOVE to wave a magic wand and make Puppet 3.x go away So.. 3.8 eh? There's

Re: [Puppet Users] Is hiera broken in FOSS Puppet 3.7.2?

2017-09-26 Thread Rob Nelson
If it helps, I use Puppet 4 and RHEL6 all the time! Rob Nelson rnels...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: > I was afraid that would be an answer I got... :-) > > There are plans to move to Puppet 4 where I know all this works but given >

Re: [Puppet Users] Is hiera broken in FOSS Puppet 3.7.2?

2017-09-26 Thread Ramin K
Puppet 4 ships as an all in one package so you can even run it on Centos5 since it's ships with it's own Ruby, etc. http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/PC1/x86_64/ Ramin On 9/26/17 12:32 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: I was afraid that would be an answer I got... :-) There are plans to move to Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Question regarding Puppet4 class params and Hiera5

2017-09-26 Thread David Schmitt
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:01 PM Sean wrote: > Greetings, > > I have read searched and read several threads in the list regarding using > hiera, automatic lookup, and class params. Some of them, I'm thinking > relate to Puppet3 and prior, and I admit I'm struggling a bit

Re: [Puppet Users] Question regarding Puppet4 class params and Hiera5

2017-09-26 Thread Sean
Hi David, thanks for your reply. I can see where I may have confused the intent of my questions with too much information. If someone using the class were to declare something like: class { 'complex': enable_feature1 => false, class_incl_list => [ 'complex::redhat::subclass1', ], } Will

[Puppet Users] Is hiera broken in FOSS Puppet 3.7.2?

2017-09-26 Thread Peter Berghold
Seeing things like doing a hiera lookup inside a manifest such as $somevar = hiera('randomvalue','notfound') returning nils and other odd behavior. I have a hiera.yaml file that looks like: --- :backends: - yaml :merge_behavior: deeper :deep_merge_options: {} :yaml: :datadir:

Re: [Puppet Users] Is hiera broken in FOSS Puppet 3.7.2?

2017-09-26 Thread Rob Nelson
If I had to guess, it would be that the merge settings either don't exist or are buggy in 3.7.2. 3.8 was EOL in December last year, if you have to stick with 3 I'd suggest at least trying it with 3.8. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:35 PM Peter Berghold wrote: > Seeing

[Puppet Users] Question regarding Puppet4 class params and Hiera5

2017-09-26 Thread Sean
Greetings, I have read searched and read several threads in the list regarding using hiera, automatic lookup, and class params. Some of them, I'm thinking relate to Puppet3 and prior, and I admit I'm struggling a bit with weeding through the information that's appropriate to my scenario of

[Puppet Users] Puppet 5 server for Debian Stretch

2017-09-26 Thread Jonas Esbjørn Engell
Hi, I know that the puppet 5 agent have been released for Debian Stretch, but I can't seem to find the puppetserver packages in the repository. Do anyone know of any plans/ETAs for support of the puppetserver on Debian Stretch? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[Puppet Users] Re: puppet disadvantages

2017-09-26 Thread Anirban Paul
https://jjasghar.github.io/blog/2013/06/26/ansible-vs-chef-vs-puppet/ On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 6:47:37 PM UTC+5:30, Sindhujit Ganguly wrote: > > Hi, > Can someone tell me the disadvantages of Puppet GUI? Why is Puppet > slow to changes and customer requests as compared to Ansible