John
I'm pretty sure when you're running hiera on the command line, you need to
'provide' the fact values.
See https://docs.puppet.com/hiera/3.2/command_line.html#fact-sources
HTH
Gav
On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 18:14:55 UTC+1, John Baird wrote:
>
> All files should be readable as they are either 755 or 644. Even if they
> don't exist, hiera should still attempt to "Search" that path and show me
> what directories it is searching when doing so with debug on. Since it is
> not showing the directories with variables, it, for some reason, is
> skipping them alltogether.
>
> another example:
>
> ---
> :backends:
> - yaml
> :yaml:
> :datadir: "/opt/local/modules/hieradata"
> :hierarchy:
> - common1/%{calling_class}
> - common2/%{calling_class}
> - common3
> - puppet_test
>
> hiera -d 'dhcpd::package_name' environment=production
> DEBUG: 2016-07-19 13:12:49 -0400: Hiera YAML backend starting
> DEBUG: 2016-07-19 13:12:49 -0400: Looking up dhcpd::package_name in YAML
> backend
> DEBUG: 2016-07-19 13:12:49 -0400: Looking for data source common3
> DEBUG: 2016-07-19 13:12:49 -0400: Cannot find datafile
> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/common3.yaml, skipping
> DEBUG: 2016-07-19 13:12:49 -0400: Looking for data source puppet_test
> DEBUG: 2016-07-19 13:12:49 -0400: Cannot find datafile
> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/puppet_test.yaml, skipping
> nil
>
> common1 and common2 are completely ignored.
>
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 5:48:59 AM UTC-5, Rob Nelson wrote:
>>
>> It cannot find the files. Do they exist and are they readable to the user
>> you are running hiera/the puppet master service as?
>>
>> On Monday, July 18, 2016, John Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Attempting to use hiera to hold all of my node-specific variables. It
>>> has been some time since I have run a puppet server, but I know it's not
>>> THAT hard. That being said, my modules run fine, but hiera is not looking
>>> them up correctly. It appears that any lines that contain any variables in
>>> the hiera.yaml are ignore and are not searched. Any assistance would be
>>> great! I'm sure it's something small, but sooooooo confused...
>>>
>>>
>>> HIERA.YAML
>>> ------------------
>>> ---
>>> :backends:
>>> - yaml
>>> :yaml:
>>> :datadir: "/opt/local/modules/hieradata"
>>> :hierarchy:
>>> - '%{calling_module}/%{::hostname}'
>>> - '%{calling_module}/common'
>>> - common
>>>
>>>
>>> hiera -d 'dhcpd::package_name' environment=production
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Hiera YAML backend starting
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Looking up dhcpd::package_name in YAML
>>> backend
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Looking for data source common
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Cannot find datafile
>>> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/common.yaml, skipping
>>> nil
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> :backends:
>>> - yaml
>>> :yaml:
>>> :datadir: "/opt/local/modules/hieradata"
>>> :hierarchy:
>>> - '%{calling_module}/%{::hostname}'
>>> - '%{calling_module}/common'
>>> - common
>>> - puppet_test
>>>
>>> hiera -d 'dhcpd::package_name' environment=production
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Hiera YAML backend starting
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Looking up dhcpd::package_name in YAML
>>> backend
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Looking for data source common
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Cannot find datafile
>>> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/common.yaml, skipping
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Looking for data source puppet_test
>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Cannot find datafile
>>> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/puppet_test.yaml, skipping
>>> nil
>>>
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