Your simplest and most straightforward upgrade path would be to port the
CSV file to a common.yaml file and then switch to using lookup() with
hieradata. Later on, you can start differentiating and build a sane data
hierarchy.

Check out the docs at https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/hiera_quick.html



On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:45 PM Robert Inder <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm looking at the possibility of moving our Puppet manifests from 3.8 to
> Something More Recent (i.e. 6.1)
>
> We have one big CSV file for (mostly) encrypted passwords and the like.
> And our existing manifests use extlookup to extract the relevant entries,
> via calls like pw =
>
> How should I replace this?
> Can someone point me at an example of the simplest possible external
> lookup?
>
> Robert.
>
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