Ellison,
Brilliant! Worked like a champ. This opens whole new worlds and should
make managing the config *much* easier!!!
Greg
On Friday, September 27, 2013 12:13:03 PM UTC-7, Ellison Marks wrote:
>
> Perhaps make it a defined type and use the create resources function. I
> can't really think of any other way to correctly scope the various
> parameters. You'd have to tweak your yaml slightly...
>
> ---
> #icecast
> type: vanilla
>
> icecast_clients:
>
> client1:
> cid: 999
> cid_hostname: icecast1
> cid_ipaddress: 192.168.254.12
> password: WhatYoSay?
> port: 200
> concurrency: 50
> num_encoders: 2
> client2:
> cid: 998
> cid_hostname: icecast2
> cid_ipaddress: 192.168.254.13
> password: NoWay!
> port: 201
> concurrency: 25
> num_encoders: 3
>
>
>
> define icecast_client($cid, $cid_hostname, $cid_ipaddress, $password,
> $port, $concurrency, num_encoders) {
> file { "/home/icecast/${cid}.icecast.xml":
> ensure => file,
> content => template('icecast/icecast.xml.erb'),
> }
> }
>
> $icecast_clients = hiera('icecast_clients')
> create_resources(icecast_client, $icecast_clients)
>
> You could use hiera_hash if you wanted to merge multiple levels of your
> hierarchy.
> You could also use the cid in place of client1, client2, etc, then you
> could remove the $cid parameter in the defined type and just use $title.
>
> On Friday, September 27, 2013 11:52:09 AM UTC-7, Greg Coit wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've started testing with using Hiera for storing configs and I have a
>> noobish question.
>>
>> Here's an example of my yaml file (/etc/puppet/hieradata/vertname.yaml):
>>
>> ---
>> #icecast
>> type: vanilla
>> client1:
>> cid: 999
>> cid_hostname: icecast1
>> cid_ipaddress: 192.168.254.12
>> password: WhatYoSay?
>> port: 200
>> concurrency: 50
>> num_encoders: 2
>> client2:
>> cid: 998
>> cid_hostname: icecast2
>> cid_ipaddress: 192.168.254.13
>> password: NoWay!
>> port: 201
>> concurrency: 25
>> num_encoders: 3
>>
>>
>> Now, I'd like to be able to create a config file for each client:
>>
>> file { '/home/icecast/${cid}.icecast.xml':
>> ensure => file
>> content => template('icecast/icecast.xml.erb'),
>> }
>>
>>
>> The question is how do I put the above into a loop which iterates over
>> the client arrays in the hiera file (each client config file should get a
>> unique cid, cid_hostname, etc)?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!!
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
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