jcbollinger wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 8:02:24 AM UTC-5, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> >
> > jcbollinger wrote:
> >
> >
> Without the case statement, how can I make sure that ubuntu only
> > receives classes for ubuntu and not e.g. for Windows then?
> >
> >
>
> That is where your data hierarchy comes in. You have a level named
> "ubuntu-common"; it therefore stands to reason that if you have any
> Windows machines under management then there is also a
> "windows-common" (even if it's only notional). These would be
> alternatives for a particular level of your hierarchy, and you would
> select which to use based on node facts. That's precisely what you
> presently do via the 'case' statement, but you can, and probably
> should, do it directly in your hierarchy definition. This is one of
> the primary uses of Hiera interpolation tokens. The Hiera docs for
> defining a hierarchy
> <https://docs.puppet.com/hiera/3.1/hierarchy.html> discuss this and
> provide an example. (I've linked to the Hiera 3.1 docs, but
> substantially the same thing applies to older Hiera as well.)
I changed my config accordingly:
:hierarchy:
- "nodes/%{::fqdn}"
- "%{::operatingsystem}"
- "%{::osfamily}"
- common
Thank you!
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