[snipped heavily, hopefully nothing important] On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:48:48AM -0700, jcbollinger wrote: > > On Monday, June 17, 2013 12:28:18 AM UTC-5, Robin Powell wrote: > > > > Doing this via storeconfigs rather defeats the purpose of my > > Hiera tree, which is to be the single source of truth. > > > > > I think you're focusing on the wrong thing when you say that. To > the extent that it's applicable to the problem, storeconfigs is > simply the infrastructure that makes exported resources work. It > is in no way an independent source of truth, because everything in > it comes from declarations made in one manifest or another, based > on node facts and possibly on data from some other source.
I didn't see the point in getting into this before, but you raise valid issues, so: That would be true, if facts automatically expired when not renewed, but they don't. I've had *no end* of trouble with lies sticking around because they were in storeconfigs. I don't mean to propose that they *should* auto-expire, as that doesn't fit the model at all, but it's still a very real problem. > You might find it convenient and logical to structure it as one > large, complex, nested value, from which the individual components > would select the pieces they need. For example, a hash with VM > hostnames as keys, and hashes of VM names to VM parameter hashes > as values (i.e. a trebly-nested hash). Alternatively, there are > ways you could spread out the data over multiple Hiera keys, but > the overall logical structure is going to be similar. *nodnod* OK, that seems sane, thanks. > It should be obvious at this point is that with this kind of data > structure, you are not going to be able to use automated class > parameter binding to assist in declaring most of the various > interrelated bits and pieces. Enh; I've already gotten around that with my users setup by using create_resources(...) > Given those choices, I would probably opt for exported resources, > myself. It's been so bad for me. ;_; After the 4th time of "Why won't nagios stop alerting on this host I turned off and removed from all my configs!?! ... Oh.", I got really sick of it. The *main goal* for me in using Hiera is to never use storeconfigs ever again. -Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
