Hey;
Never mind, I reasoned this one out on my own. The whole point of hiera is
to be able to override lower level configurations with ones higher up in
the hierarchy, so while a cool idea, this definitely won't work.
On to plan B.
Thanks
Doug
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 7:32:37 PM UTC-5, dkoleary wrote:
>
> Hey;
>
> I'm planning out a module to handle syslog config in my environment. I
> know there are modules on puppet forge already but am interested in the
> learning opportunity. .
>
> Here's the scenario:
>
> * The syslog config files will all be the same except for forwarders.
> * We have three datacenters whose hosts forward to a DC specific collector.
> * Production systems and select others also foward to a SIEM
> * DMZ systems forward to a third collector in addition to the previous two.
>
> This seems like a template would work well here. Don't know what that
> would look like yet but there are plenty of examples on the net. I'm
> curious how about hiera interaction - specifically multiple remote
> collectors specified.
>
> Here's my hierarchy:
>
> :hierarchy:
> - "hosts/%{facts.hostname}"
> - "environments/%{facts.environment}"
> - "host_env/%{facts.env}"
> - "dc/%{facts.dc}"
> - "os/%{facts.osfamily}"
> - common
>
> in the appropriate dc.yaml file, I'm planning on:
>
> ---
> dolsyslog::remote: '1.2.3.4'
>
> Similar set up in hosts_env/prd.yaml
>
> ---
> dolsyslog::remote: '2.3.4.5'
>
> DMZ and specific hosts will be set up in the hosts hieradata directory.
>
> So. long build up to a relatively short question. Can a template be made
> to iterate across multiple remotes identified like that? It seems like
> it'd be too good to be true but worth the question. If my suspicion is
> correct, is there a better way to work this?
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Doug O'Leary
>
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