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Extending Puppet
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Extending Puppet

by Alessandro Franceschi
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with the command line on a YAML backend

When we use a backend based on files such as JSON or YAML, which are the most commonly used, we have to recreate on the filesystem the hierarchy defined in our hiera.yaml file; the files that contain Hiera data must be placed in these directories.

Let's see Hiera in action. Provide a sample hierarchy configuration as follows:

:hierarchy:
  - "nodes/%{::fqdn}"
  - "env/%{::env}"
  - common

:yaml:
  :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata

We have to create a directory structure as follows:

mkdir -p /etc/puppet/hieradata/nodes
mkdir -p /etc/puppet/hieradata/env

Then, work on the YAML files as shown:

vi /etc/puppet/hieradata/nodes/web01.example42.com.yaml
vi /etc/puppet/hieradata/env/production.yaml
vi /etc/puppet/hieradata/env/test.yaml ...
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