Quick update: I found out i can run "hiera <nodename>" successfuly on the server as long as I link the the file to the path approrpiate to the hiera command (designated with a 'which'). still doesn't apear to function from within a puppet manifest, however ... so I'm more supicious of a syntax issue.
Also ... is hiera something we _only_ need to function on the server? or is the server going to let the local client try to process the hiera lookup? Basically I have no idea where I have to ensure hiera is running properly. On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 4:17:46 PM UTC-7, Justin DynamicD wrote: > > Hi, > > anyone have some good concise examples on how to setup using a consul > backend in hiera? I've attempted with little luck to get this backend to > work. > > So far these are the steps I've tried: > > 1. Imported lynxman/hiera-consul into in the Puppetfile > 2. Modified puppetserver.conf "ruby-load-path" to include the agent > libdir (and presumably pickup the consul_backend.rb) via: > https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/si/jira.issueviews:issue-html/SERVER-571/SERVER-571.html > 3. Validated basic hiera yaml was working by creating a simple > "common.yaml" and ensured variables were being picked up during puppet runs > (this was mostly to ensure hiera as a subsystem was t least functioning). > 4. Verified I can directly query consul with either consul kv, curl, and > even dig. > > With all this in place, I can't seem to get any info back. For a fun test > I created a truly "simply" little class: > > class hieratest ( > $getdata = hiera('%{::hostname}'), ) { > > $myresult = join($getdata, ",") > > file { '/root/dump.txt' : > ensure => present, > content => inline_template($myresult), > } > > } > > > > As you can see this does very little other than perform a hiera lookup > (for hostname) and then dump the output into a file so I can see what it's > gathering. > > The file is always empty. > > I've tried a few different variations to attempt to get data out, but I'm > not certain of how. What I'd like to emulate is simply: > > consul catalog services -node=<nodename> > > This simple command returns all the services registered to a specified > node as an array. That's basically all I'm trying to get back from consul > via hiera so I can then use simple If "application" in $getdata". > > Anyone have any insight on what setting I might be missing? Simple syntax > issue? consul trick? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/e63c10b2-ff0c-4c02-ab85-6b9662a23024%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
