Puppet users - Sep 2012 - hiera() variables with the same name lookup in different modules

Hi poeple,

I seem to have a slight issue with Hiera. Let''s say I have a number or 
different modules and they have multiple variables, but some of the 
variables have the same name like other modules. For instance $password 
variable in module "foo" and $password variable in module
"bar".

How can I distinguish them from each other in my hiera yaml files? I am 
aware of %{calling_module}, but that requires adding more items into my 
hierarchy and making management of yaml data files painful.

My current hierarchy looks similar to the below one:

- %{environment}/nodes/%{fqdn}
- %{environment}/common

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and responses.

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  Vaidas


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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vaidas Jablonskis" <jablonskis@gmail.com>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 12:16:11 PM
> Subject: [Puppet Users] hiera() variables with the same name lookup in
different modules
> 
> Hi poeple,
> 
> I seem to have a slight issue with Hiera. Let''s say I have a
number
> or different modules and they have multiple variables, but some of
> the variables have the same name like other modules. For instance
> $password variable in module "foo" and $password variable in
module
> "bar".
> 
> How can I distinguish them from each other in my hiera yaml files? I
> am aware of %{calling_module}, but that requires adding more items
> into my hierarchy and making management of yaml data files painful.
if class mysql needs password and class ftp needs password then name the
data mysql::password and ftp::password, use that as keys for the call
to hiera

does that work?

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It does! Thanks a lot. Simple, but powerful.

On Friday, 21 September 2012 12:21:42 UTC+1, R.I. Pienaar
wrote:
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Vaidas Jablonskis" <jablo...@gmail.com
<javascript:>>
> > To: puppet...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> 
> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 12:16:11 PM 
> > Subject: [Puppet Users] hiera() variables with the same name lookup in
> different modules 
> > 
> > Hi poeple, 
> > 
> > I seem to have a slight issue with Hiera. Let''s say I have a
number
> > or different modules and they have multiple variables, but some of 
> > the variables have the same name like other modules. For instance 
> > $password variable in module "foo" and $password variable in
module
> > "bar". 
> > 
> > How can I distinguish them from each other in my hiera yaml files? I 
> > am aware of %{calling_module}, but that requires adding more items 
> > into my hierarchy and making management of yaml data files painful. 
>
> if class mysql needs password and class ftp needs password then name the 
> data mysql::password and ftp::password, use that as keys for the call 
> to hiera 
>
> does that work? 
>
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