I have been doing some experimenting with Puppet + Hiera with some of my hashes, but when it is going through my hierarchy it is returning whatever hash it hits first and skipping the others. For my node 'sandbox1' sandbox.pp: node /^sandbox\d+/ { class { 'php':} notify { 'PHP hash': message => hiera('php::augeas',{}) } $php_settings = hiera('php::augeas',{}) create_resources('php::augeas',$php_settings) } hiera.yaml: --- :backends: - json :json: :datadir: /etc/puppet/hiera :merge_behavior: "deeper" :hierarchy: - "nodes/%{::hostname}" - "roles/%{::role}" - "provider/%{::provider}" - "provider/%{::provider}/virtual/virtual_%{::is_virtual}" - common hiera/nodes/sandbox1.json: { "php::augeas" : { "php-allow_url_fopen" : { "entry" : "PHP/allow_url_fopen", "value" : "On" } } } hiera/roles/sandbox.json: { "php::augeas" : { "php-log_errors" : { "entry" : "PHP/log_errors", "value" : "On" } } } hiera/common.json: { "php::augeas" : { "php-date_timezone" : { "entry" : "Date/date.timezone", "value" : "America/New_York" }, "php-short_open_tag" : { "entry" : "PHP/short_open_tag", "value" : "On" }, "php-error_log" : { "entry" : "PHP/error_log", "value" : "/var/log/php/php_error.log" } } } In this configuration, *only "php-allow_url_fopen" **from the top-level nodes hash is returned*. If I remove that nodes/sandbox1.json, it only returns the "php-log_errors" from the next "roles" hiera level down. Finally, if the nodes and roles json's are removed it will apply all three from the common.json hash. I have tried both native and deeper merge behaviors with the same result. The strangest thing is that the hiera command line tool on the master returns the correct hash: # hiera -h php::augeas ::hostname=sandbox1 ::role=sandbox -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml {"php-date_timezone"=> {"entry"=>"Date/date.timezone", "value"=>"America/New_York"}, "php-short_open_tag"=>{"entry"=>"PHP/short_open_tag", "value"=>"On"}, "php-error_log"=> {"entry"=>"PHP/error_log", "value"=>"/var/log/php/php_error.log"}, "php-log_errors"=>{"entry"=>"PHP/log_errors", "value"=>"On"}, "php-allow_url_fopen"=>{"entry"=>"PHP/allow_url_fopen", "value"=>"On"}} -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/96454179-6cd7-4c54-9ec2-2bf553e319a9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.