Example of how to use require with hiera?

[Daniel Johnson]

Things like

require: File['somefile']

or

require:
File: somefile

both crash, and burn.

Not having a require also causes failure as it tries to do things it
can't without the prerequisite.

After hours of searching I couldn't find any examples to work from.

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[Rich Burroughs]

I'm not clear what the context is here. Those snippets are what's in your YAML file? Maybe you could post the relevant code from your manifest too?

Rich

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[Antoine Cotten]

Hi teknotus,

I don't think that would work since you can not declare a Puppet resource in Hiera, you are limited to core types.
In your case, Puppet would interpret "File['somefile']" as a string, and "File: somefile" as a hash, but will never translate that to a resource.

Cheers,

Toni

[jcbollinger]

That indeed used to be the case.  I have lately heard reports that the string form actually works, however, though I suspect it's core Puppet rather than Hiera that changed to enable it.


John

[Nan Liu]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Daniel Johnson <tekn...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you are building a resource hash for create_resources, it's just quoted string:

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notify:
  example1:

    message: "first"

  example2:

    message: "second"

    require: "Notify[example1]"

create_resources(notify, hiera('notify'))

HTH,

Nan

[Antoine Cotten]

Does this actually work Nan??
Can somebody point me to any page where this is documented?

Toni

[Daniel Johnson]

> Does this actually work Nan??

It does work. At least in the latest version of puppet.

> Can somebody point me to any page where this is documented?

If I could find documentation for it I wouldn't have asked here.

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