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Skullone
Asked: 2016-11-25 10:05:58 +0800 CST

Puppet/hiera : generate sereval files from one template

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I'm running puppet 4 and I would like to generate several config files from the same template with different configurations for each one.

for example :

# cat /tmp/a.conf 
test1

# cat /tmp/b.conf 
test2

And I need to put all those informations in hiera, so something like that I think :

test::clusters:
  - 'a.conf'
    text: 'test1'
  - 'b.conf'
    text: 'test2'

Thx

puppet template puppetmaster hiera

2 Answers

  1. You need a defined type

    define test::clusters (
  $text = undef
) {

  file { "/tmp/${title}":
    ensure  => $ensure,
    owner   => 'root',
    group   => 'root',
    content => template('my_file/example.erb'),
  }

}

    in templates/test/clusters

    <%= @text %>

    Then you can define a test::clisters in a manifest like so:

    ::test::clusters { 'a.conf':
  text => 'test1'
}

    Or if you still wish to use hiera, you can use create_resources

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  2. Best Answer

    Ok I find how to make it works :

    Here is my hiera data/common.yaml :

    test::paramconf:
  'a':
    text: '1'
  'b':
    text: '2'

    Here is my module configuration manifests/init.pp :

    class test ($paramconf){
    create_resources(test::conf, $paramconf)
}

define test::conf (
  String[1] $text,
  String[1] $text2 = $title,
) {
  file { "/tmp/${title}.conf":
    ensure  => file,
    owner   => 'root',
    group   => 'root',
    mode    => '0644',
    content => template('test/test2.erb'),
  }
}

    The only thing I don't understand is why this is working :

    test::paramconf:
  'a':
    text: '1'
  'b':
    text: '2'

    And that doesn't work :

    test::paramconf:
  - 'a':
    text: '1'
  - 'b':
    text: '2'
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