Thanks for your tips Reid, especially the bit about "data_hash". I'll be
sure to keep that in mind if I end up writing such a backend. Unfortunately
there's no budget for this, so would definitely be an 'in-house' job. It's
possible that I might be able to use the http_data_hash plugin you
Thanks for that John,
If I go down this road, I'll post any code that I produce on GitHub and see
if anyone else is interested in trying/testing it.
Cheers,
Nick
On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 12:47:37 AM UTC+10, John Bollinger wrote:
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Hey Nick,
A particular phrase you used caught my attention: "Elasticsearch holds the
Hiera config for a number of nodes."
There's a lot about putting together the words "elasticsearch" and "hiera
backend" that can sound scary if it's done wrong, but I have seen backends
built to solve the
On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 5:59:12 AM UTC-5, nick@countersight.co
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> Thanks for your response John,
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> I appreciate you taking a quick look around to see if anyone else has
> already done this. I had come to the same conclusion, that if someone has
> already, they mostly
Thanks for your response John,
I appreciate you taking a quick look around to see if anyone else has
already done this. I had come to the same conclusion, that if someone has
already, they mostly likely haven't shared it.
You raise valid points about EL being generally pretty unsuitable as a
On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 12:19:58 AM UTC-5, nick@countersight.co
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> I'd like to be able to store (and more importantly) retrieve Hiera hash
> data from Elasticsearch for my Puppet runs. Does anyone know if this has
> already been done?
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I haven't heard of such
