All- We're using puppet (opensource) 3.4.2 master and clients. We've been using puppet a few years, including create_resources, but this is my first foray into creating complicated nested hashes. I've boiled the problem I'm running into down to this example: $ cat /tmp/foo.pp class foo { foo::bar { 'somevalue': stuff => { 'one' => 'doesnt_matter', 'two' => 'doesnt_matter', } } } define foo::bar ( $stuff = {}, ) { # # not valid: fails with a parser validation error on the key $name: # # Error: Could not parse for environment production: Syntax error at # 'name'; # expected '}' at /tmp/foo.pp:21 # $new_hash = { $name => $stuff, } # # this works, using a constant key # $new_hash = { 'a_constant' => $stuff, } } This comes from a larger, more complicated example, but what I'm trying to do is - take a hash ($stuff) that has all the parameters I need - create a new hash with a single key that's the $name/$title for the define, and a value that contains the hash $stuff that I was passed. As you might guess, this is to make $new_hash suitable for passing to create_resources. Is there some other way to create a new hash, give it a single top-level key that is a variable, and assign a separate (passed-in as a parameter) hash as the value for that key? I would be fine with using stdlib::merge, but I don't see any obvious way to accomplish this task with stdlib::merge either. Thanks, Tim -- Tim Mooney Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, Quentin Burdick Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 -- 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/alpine.SOC.2.11.1411061531150.12196%40dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.