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I've got a masterless Puppet setup and I'd like to simply add information such as package names based on $::osfamily for portability. It seems Hiera is made for this sort of thing, but I can't figure out how to actually use Hiera data inside a source repository from a Puppet manifest within the same source repository without modifying anything in /etc. Basically every piece of documentation seems to assume that I'd want to modify /etc/puppetlabs/code/hiera.yaml or /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf by hand whenever I use a different repository. Or am I completely misunderstanding Hiera?

If necessary I'd be OK with adding a puppet.conf to the repository and referencing that every time I run puppet apply, but how would I go about referring to the current directory as the root for the hiera_config?

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Yes, you can use hiera data with masterless setup. Just specify --hiera_config with hiera confiuration which specify where to look for hiera data.

Example:

nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ puppet apply -t --modulepath=./modules/ --hiera_config=./hiera.conf manifests/a.pp Notice: Compiled catalog for trololo.lan in environment production in 0.31 seconds Info: Applying configuration version '1449108414' Notice: test: bar Notice: /Stage[main]/A/Notify[test: bar]/message: defined 'message' as 'test: bar' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.02 seconds nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ cat hiera.conf --- :backends: yaml :yaml: :datadir: /tmp/puppet/data :hierarchy: common :logger: console nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ cat data/common.yaml a::foo: bar nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ cat manifests/a.pp class { "a": } nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ cat modules/a/manifests/init.pp class a ( $foo = "default msg" ){ notify { "test: $foo": } } nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ rm data/common.yaml nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$ puppet apply -t --modulepath=./modules/ --hiera_config=./hiera.conf manifests/a.pp Notice: Compiled catalog for trololo.lan in environment production in 0.32 seconds Info: Applying configuration version '1449108454' Notice: test: default msg Notice: /Stage[main]/A/Notify[test: default msg]/message: defined 'message' as 'test: default msg' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.02 seconds nkts@trololo:/tmp/puppet$
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  • Thank you! (I figured it out the meantime :P) Commented Dec 3, 2015 at 2:33

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