Hiera in custom facts?

[leed]

Hello all

So is it possible to use hiera data in a custom facts? I'm probably going about this all wrong, but I was hoping something like this would work.

Facter.add("cluster_name") do

  setcode do

   hiera('clustername')

  end

end

But I get a lot of

Could not retrieve cluster_name: undefined method `hiera' for :Facter::Util::Resolution

The fact that googling for this returns nothing is whats making me worried I'm going about it all wrong.

Just want to be able to have a custom fact that returns the cluster_name for a host if its set in its hiera data.

Cheers

Lee

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

this is in fact not the right approach.

Facts are evaluated on the agent side, while hiera typically belongs to
the master side only.

If you want to use $clustername instead of hiera("clustername"), just
add this to the global scope of your manifest:

$clustername = hiera("clustername")

HTH,
Felix

[leed]

On Friday, 6 December 2013 14:27:47 UTC, Felix.Frank wrote:

If you want to use $clustername instead of hiera("clustername"), just
add this to the global scope of your manifest:

$clustername = hiera("clustername")

Thanks for your response, I'd tried adding that to the global scope (confirmed with a notify), but this doesn't seem to be passed to the custom facts, as these seem to be processed before hand?

So with 

Facter.add("cluster_name") do

  setcode do

    $clustername

  end

end

I get :-

# facter --debug -p

value for cluster_name is still nil

[Felix Frank]

Again: You *cannot* get hiera values into facter, nor would that be
particularly useful (at least from the master's perspective).

[Johan De Wit]

Trying to explain a little bit more, here is the flow of a puppet run on
a node :

On the node : agent starts - gathers all the facts. ( facter -p if you
want to see what is gathered)
Node sends it to the puppet master
Puppet masters compiles the catalog, using those facte, and looking up
all classes assigned to that node. It is here hiera comes in action.
Compiled catalog is send to the Node
Node executes the catalog, and sends a report back to the puppet master

I hope you see now why hiera and facts dont work together

grts

jo

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[Lee Dormon]

Excellent, thanks guys, had a feeling I was doing it wrong, just wanted to make sure.

Thanks
Lee

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