[Puppet Users] Problem with custom facts and hiera

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to categorize our Puppet agent nodes via custom facts. To do
this, I've placed a simple text file "custom_facts.txt" into
C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\facter\facts.d with content

[facts]
role = PuppetDev

When I call facter on the agent node, I can see the new fact.

On the server, I've added a line

- "role/%{::role}"

into /etc/hiera.yaml, below the :hierarchy: line and restarted the master.

Finally, I've added /etc/puppet/hiera/role/PuppetDev.yaml with content

---
puppet_agent::version: 3.4.3

while /etc/puppet/hiera/common.yaml has

puppet_agent::version: 3.4.2

To verify that the correct version is delivered, I run

hiera puppet_agent::version ::role=PuppetDev

and get the correct version (3.4.3) back.

However, when I run the puppet agent on the node, it has role unset and
thus it doesn't try to update the puppet agent.

What am I doing wrong here?

Master is 3.4.3, agents are 3.4.2.

Thanks...

Dirk
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Am 11.03.2014 10:31, schrieb Craig Dunn:
Drop the :: from your hiera.yaml, it's being taken literally as
'::role' rather than defining scope.

On 11 Mar 2014 10:21, "Dirk Heinrichs" wrote:
To me it looks like facter is reading the file containing the custom

Am 11.03.2014 10:17, schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:

To do this, I've placed a simple text file "custom_facts.txt" into
C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\facter\facts.d with content

[facts]
role = PuppetDev

On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 7:44:58 AM UTC-4, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am 11.03.2014 10:17, schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:

To do this, I've placed a simple text file "custom_facts.txt" into
C:\ProgramData\PuppetLabs\facter\facts.d with content

[facts]
role = PuppetDev


Got it to work by removing the blanks:

role=PuppetDev

Bye...

Dirk
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