Hello, The other day I was on IRC and someone asked how to export strings in PuppetDB. As far as I am aware this isn't possible with PuppetDB. It is possible with certain hiera backends.
I've created a hiera_insert module at https://github.com/nibalizer/hiera-insert. This module only has one function right now, redis_insert(). When using the redis backend to hiera(and some assumptions I've hardcoded for now), its possible to push key:value pairs into hiera and pull them out. On its own this isn't very interesting. But it enables multi node communication. And since you can configure the hiera lookups on 'subscriber' nodes to fail catalog compilation until the key they're looking up on is present, you have some guarantees of in order execution across your infrastructure. I'm wondering if other people think this is a good idea? Are there other implementations I should be contributing to? Would people use it if it supported different hiera backends? Really just interested in feedback. It's not on the forge right now because I still consider it experimental and proof of concept. But if there is interest I will be happy to publish it. Thanks, Spencer -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/3d79ded1-1df5-4c82-8bf7-d67cdd872166%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
