Hiera has stopped working correctly!

[Guy Matz]

Hiera is not honoring my hierarchy :-(

gmatz@bunnybear ~/Code/puppet $ cat hiera.yaml 

---

:hierarchy:

  - "%{::environment}"

  - common

:backends:

  - eyaml

  - yaml

:merge_behavior: deeper

:eyaml:

  :datadir: /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/hieradata

  :pkcs7_private_key: /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/keys/private_key.pkcs7.pem

  :pkcs7_public_key: /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/keys/public_key.pkcs7.pem

:yaml:

  :datadir: /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/hieradata

gmatz@bunnybear ~/Code/puppet $ grep activemq_password hieradata/production.eyaml 

activemq_password: &activemq_password ENC[PKCS7,MIIBeQYJKggEhMIIBHQIBAD. . . .

but it only looks for common:

gmatz@bunnybear ~/Code/puppet $ hiera -d -c ~/Code/puppet/hiera.yaml activemq_password environment=production

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: [eyaml_backend]: Hiera eYAML backend starting

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: [eyaml_backend]: Set option: datadir = /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/hieradata

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: [eyaml_backend]: Set option: pkcs7_private_key = /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/keys/private_key.pkcs7.pem

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: [eyaml_backend]: Set option: pkcs7_public_key = /home/gmatz/Code/puppet/keys/public_key.pkcs7.pem

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: [eyaml_backend]: Looking up activemq_password in eYAML backend

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: [eyaml_backend]: Looking for data source common

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: Hiera YAML backend starting

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: Looking up activemq_password in YAML backend

DEBUG: 2014-12-16 09:31:19 -0500: Looking for data source common

nil

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Guy

[Gavin Williams]

Guy

I think you need to pass in your environment to hiera using '::environment' rather than 'environment', as your hiera.yaml is looking for '::environment'... 

Similar issue/resolution here: https://ask.puppetlabs.com/question/3635/how-do-i-specify-environment-to-hiera-on-the-command-line/?answer=3647#post-id-3647

Cheers

Gav