The getting of wisdom - Puppet Labs and Hiera
James Turnbull
storing and separating data and logic in Puppet and other
tools. He started with the extlookup function (which was merged into
Puppet in the 2.6.x release series) a simple file-based hierarchical
data store.
He then tackled the problem with Hiera: a simple pluggable Hierarchical
Database. Hiera is a significant enhancement over extlookup, comes with
a much closer integration to Puppet than extlookup and supports a wider
variety of data sources.
We're thrilled to announce that Arri has decided to pass the Hiera
project into the custodianship of Puppet Labs. From a license
perspective nothing changes - Hiera remains free, open source and
licensed under Apache 2.0. Puppet Labs will be taking on the patching,
management and development of Hiera going forward.
We'd also like to merge Hiera into Puppet core as extlookup was but we
don't want to reduce its utility as a standalone tool and so we're still
considering the best approach to take. We'd welcome input from the
community on this.
If you have tickets or issues to raise about Hiera please log them at:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/hiera
The Hiera code is now located at:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera
https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet
https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-json
Please feel free to email the list or me directly if you have any
questions about this.
Thanks
James Turnbull