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AlexD
Asked: 2011-08-16 09:34:53 +0800 CST

using puppet host resource with hiera data source

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I'm trying to implement puppet /etc/hosts handling using hiera as data source, but my current implementation requires data duplication because I could pass only array of strings as $name to host resource.

Is there any way to avoid such data duplication? Or maybe it is possible to use templates but keep ability to have local modifications to /etc/hosts file? 

class hosts ($hosts = hiera("hosts"), $hostsdefs = hiera("hostsdefs"))  { 

  define hostentry( ) { 
    host{ $name: ip => $hostsdefs[$name][ipaddress], 
                 host_aliases => $hostsdefs[$name][host_aliases]  } 
  } 

  hostentry{ $hosts: } 
}

YAML data for hiera:

---- 
hosts: 
  - host1.example.com 
  - host2.example.com 
hostsdefs: 
  host1.example.com: 
    ipaddress: 10.0.0.1 
    host_aliases: host1 
 host2.example.com: 
    ipaddress: 10.0.0.2 
    host_aliases: host2
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I was able to find following solution using create_resource function

    class hosts ($hosts = hiera_hash("hosts"))  {
  create_resources( 'host', $hosts )
}

    it needs slight modification to my original data (change hash key to ip to match resource parameter):

    ---- 
hosts: 
  host1.example.com: 
    ip: 10.0.0.1 
    host_aliases: host1 
 host2.example.com: 
    ip: 10.0.0.2 
    host_aliases: host2
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