Hi everyone, I currently have a giant file with default variables I use in a lot of my modules and I override those at the node level if I need to. I thought I would give porting that data into a hiera setup.
I worked out how to specify my data sources and started to make a go at moving some of my variables in the default data file. I thought heira would be smart and set a variable to undef if it couldn't find it but that doesn't seem to be the case. (unless I missed something in the rather sparse documentation) Is there a way of telling it to do this? I was also trying to work out how I automagically get my parametized classed to pull in vars from hiera. (The docs on that don't tell me much either.) Can anyone tall me how that works? Or do I have to use the hiera functions which isn't automagical in my book. My current variables are set with a default value in my main file and then I override those at the node level if I need to (so kind of the same way hiera does it anyway) So given all of that I can't see any reason to switch to using heira because my current setup works as-is (my variable file is getting pretty huge anyway but that isn't going to change with heira if it won't set a var to undef). What are the benefits or using an external source for variables instead of sticking them in my node definitions (which seems like it would be faster because it doesn't have to use an external source)? Thanks in advance. Pete. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
