How to reference a hiera variable from elsewhere the hierarchy

hierapuppet

So suppose in a very specific hiera YAML file I define a variable, such as "env_name".

env_name: "dev-unstable"

Now in a more general hiera file I'd like to interpolate that variable into a string.

server_name: "service-%{env_name}.%{::domain}"

My testing seems to imply that hiera variables from elsewhere in the hierarchy aren't made available for interpolation in general cases. Is that true, unfortunately?

Best Answer

You can use Hiera lookup functions within Hiera. Documentation here: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/variables.html#using-lookup-functions

In your case you would use:

server_name: "service-%{hiera('env_name')}.%{::domain}"

This is a priority lookup and will get the value for the key env_name from the highest (most specific) hierarchy level in which it finds the key.

This requires Hiera 1.3 or higher.

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Puppet&Hiera: $variable is not an hash or array when accessing it

Finally I found this was a variable scope problem, the correct init.pp should be:

class install(
  $common_instances = hiera_array('common_instances'),
  $common_instanceconfig = hiera_array('common_instanceconfigs'),
) 
{
  define instances (
  $common_instanceconfig
  ) {   

  common { $common_instances[0]: 
    name       => $title,
    path       => $common_instanceconfig[0],
    version    => $common_instanceconfig[1],
    files      => $common_instanceconfig[2],
    pre        => $common_instanceconfig[3],
    after      => $common_instanceconfig[4],
    properties => $common_instanceconfig[5],
    require    => $common_instanceconfig[$title]['require'] ,
   }   
  }

  instances {$common_instances: 
    common_instanceconfig => $common_instanceconfig
  }

}

Different hiera hierarchy per dynamic environment

I think I just found it.

My guess is you can make this dynamic in the same way as environments, something like

hiera_config = $confdir/environments/$environment/hiera.yaml

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Different hiera hierarchy per dynamic environment

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