On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 8:10:00 PM UTC-6, Pete wrote:
>
>
> One last question.
> I use a node level variable to specify the location of a node.
> I use this for setting variables specific to that location like different
> puppet master ip and nagios ip for the office and such.
> I want to use that variable in hiera for the same purpose.
> I have this in my hiera.yaml file.
>
> ---
> :hierachy:
> - %{::clientcert}
> - %{::environment}
> - %{location}
> - virtual_%{::is_virtual}
> - common
> :backends: yaml
> :yaml:
> :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata
>
> it gets data from the common.yaml file but is seems to not get anything
> from any of the other files.
> it's definitely using the datadir because thats where the common.yaml file
> is as well as the rest of the data files.
> Am I missing something?
>
>
You are missing that node variables are not globals, and in fact don't even
have qualified names. I strongly suspect that that is why Hiera is not
seeing them.
There are several potential workarounds, among them:
- set the needed variable(s) at top-level, based on some sort of
conditional
- push all the contents of your node blocks into classes, so that the
variables in question become class variables
- instead of creating a separate hierarchy level with a data file for
each value of (say) $environment,use a hash of hashes in the level below,
with the $environment values as the outer hash keys
Cheers,
John
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