Since I need to store things like Db passwords (used on DB node to create
stuff and on the app_server node to establish the connection) I could use
either a hash dedicated to generic DB stuff or a hash for passwords and in
this way I could also use hiera-gpg
All too simple.
Thanks
Luca
Il giorno venerdì 30 agosto 2013 14:15:14 UTC+2, Drew Blessing ha scritto:
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7:26:41 PM UTC-5, François Lafont wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought about another way with the extlookup function.
>>
>> ---
>> snmp:
>> community: extvalue_community
>>
>> monitoring:
>> community: extvalue_community
>>
>> And in a common.csv file:
>>
>> extvalue_community,abcd1234
>>
>> Then:
>>
>> class snmp {
>>
>> $snmp = hiera_hash('snmp')
>> $community = extlookup($snmp['community'])
>>
>> # and the rest of the class...
>>
>> }
>> class monitoring {
>>
>> $monitoring = hiera_hash('monitoring')
>> $community = extlookup($monitoring['community'])
>>
>> # and the rest of the class...
>>
>> }
>>
>> I don't know if it's good method.
>>
>> Thanks for your help John.
>>
>> --
>> Francois Lafont
>>
>
> I think you're taking an extra step and arriving at the same solution.
> Eliminate the extlookup step and instead have both modules look at the
> same variable in hiera. Make it some arbitrary name that doesn't conflict
> with any module (and hopefully won't in the future either). Then just
> lookup that value explicitly with the hiera function in any module that
> needs it.
>
> ---
> snmp_community: abcd1234
>
> class snmp {
> $snmp_community = hiera('snmp_community')
> }
>
> class monitoring {
> $snmp_community = hiera('snmp_community')
> }
>
> If you do use a hash like you were using in Hiera, please note that you do
> not need to use hiera_hash() to get the data unless you're "merging" that
> hash up your hierarchy (i.e. Setting part of the hash data in global and
> setting some more pieces of the hash in another part of the hierarchy that
> you want to merge together for the final data). hiera() will get the hash
> just fine but will not merge it up the tree.
>
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