[Request for Comments] hiera_declare_types

[Nathan Nobbe]

Hi everyone,

I've polished up the code for hiera_declare_types. It's essentially the hiera_include('classes') equivalent for resource types and to me it seems very useful.

What other people tell me they are doing instead is writing one-off modules, for sake of declaration via hiera_include. hiera_declare_types on the other hand is generic and allows resource type declaration directly in hiera data sources.

Could some devs take a peek and provide feedback? Is this something that could find it's way into the core?

https://github.com/quickshiftin/puppet-hiera-module#hiera_declare_types

thanks,

-nathan

[Andy Parker]

Hi Nathan,

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quicks...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've polished up the code for hiera_declare_types. It's essentially the hiera_include('classes') equivalent for resource types and to me it seems very useful.

Interesting. Is your function different from https://github.com/reliantsecurity/hiera-resources ? It might be good to work them them to get this onto the forge as a module. If it catches on there, then it could be a candidate for inclusion into the core.

 

What other people tell me they are doing instead is writing one-off modules, for sake of declaration via hiera_include. hiera_declare_types on the other hand is generic and allows resource type declaration directly in hiera data sources.

Could some devs take a peek and provide feedback? Is this something that could find it's way into the core?

https://github.com/quickshiftin/puppet-hiera-module#hiera_declare_types

thanks,

-nathan

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[Nathan Nobbe]

Andrew,

Thanks for your reply!

Interesting. Is your function different from https://github.com/reliantsecurity/hiera-resources ?

Thanks for sharing this, good to know somebody else has had this thought and I'm not alone.

Fundamentally they are the same. Looking at this hiera_resources the main difference is the way things are defined in the data sources. Whereas hiera_resources would have you group all the resource definitions into a single block, hiera_declare_types asks you to sprinkle them throughout the file, so for built-in types you would have

hiera_file:

# file definitions...

hiera_cron:

# cron definitions...

For user-space resource types like mysql databases, there's two steps, 1. define the user-space resource types to look for, 2. provide the definition e.g.

types:

 - mysq::db

hiera_mysql_db:

# db definitions...

Six and a half dozen the other I suppose, but I'd argue the syntax of hiera_declare_types is more congruent with the way hiera_include('classes') works. What do you think?

 

It might be good to work them them to get this onto the forge as a module. If it catches on there, then it could be a candidate for inclusion into the core.

I'll work on getting something onto the forge.

thanks,

-nathan