Solved it with create_resources.
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 4:58:44 PM UTC-6, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A bit of background, I'm trying to move from node inheritance to hiera.
> With node inheritance I could declare defined types at several levels, for
> example, say for all of preproduction I'd like a yum repository
>
> *manifests/pre-prod.pp*
> class preprod {
> yumrepo { 'preprod-repo': ... }
> }
>
> Then add other repos in various sub classes where other specialized
> yumrepo(s) are declared
> *manifests/qa.pp*
> class qa inherits preprod {
> yumrepo { 'qa': ... }
> }
>
> *manifests/dev.pp*
> class dev inherits preprod {
> yumrepo {'dev': ... }
> }
>
> I'm having a hard time getting this to map to hiera cleanly. I'd like to
> have the data in the hierarchy something like this
>
> *preprod.yaml*
> yumrepo::name: preprod-repo
> ...
>
> *qa.yaml*
> yumrepo::name: qa-repo
> ...
>
> My initial thought was to use hiera_include('classes'), but that doesn't
> work for defined types. What folks on superuser.com have
> suggested<http://serverfault.com/questions/549720/hiera-include-equivalent-for-resource-types/549727?noredirect=1#549727>is
> to define a wrapper class for *each* declaration of a defined type.
> Something like
>
> class preprod_repo {
> yumrepo { 'preprod-repo': ... }
> }
>
> class qa_repo {
> yumrepo { 'qa-repo': ... }
> }
>
> Then in the yaml
>
> *preprod.yaml*
> classes:
> - preprod_repo
> ...
>
> *qa.yaml*
> classes:
> - qa_repo
> ...
>
> I really don't want to define a class for every single type instantiation.
> What I'd prefer would be a single class that could capture a merged hash
> from all the yaml files and write out all the type declarations, but I'm
> having trouble with the implementation. From the yaml side, I've got what I
> want, something like this
>
> *preprod.yaml*
> classes:
> - yumrepo_hiera
>
> yumrepo_hiera: {
> 'preprod_repo' : {
> # attributes for preprod yum repo
> }
> }
>
> *qa.yaml*
> classes:
> - yumrepo_hiera
>
> yumrepo_hiera: {
> 'qa_repo' : {
> # attributes for qa yum repo
> }
> }
>
> Now I'm passing an aggregate data object with all the data needed to the
> yumrepo_hieara class. Problem is how to write out all those type
> declarations. Since there's no looping in RDL. I know it's deprecated, but
> the Ruby DSL seems to be my best bet, yet I can't get the hash from hiera
> passed in.., I'm getting this error when I run the agent
>
> undefined method `merge' for :yumrepo_hiera:Symbol
>
> Here's what I've got so far, bear in mind I know nothing of Ruby, but
> hopefully you can get the idea
>
> hostclass :yumrepo_hiera, :yumrepo_hiera do
> @yumrepo_hiera.each do |name, repo|
> yumrepo( :name,
> repo[:descr],
> # other parameters to yumrepo type...
> )
> end
> end
>
> Can someone help me get off the ground with this Ruby DSL, or show me a
> better way in general, one where I don't have to write a class per each
> node declaration?
>
> thanks,
>
> -nathan
>
>
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