In EPP the template must look different:
<% $site::profiles::ntp::ntp[‘servers'].each |$server| { -%>
server: <%= $server %>
<% } -%>
An array may consist of a single entry only.
> On 28. Mar 2023, at 16:30, Laci D <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I tried both epp and erb templates.
>
> This is the manifest file:
>
> class site::profiles::ntp {
> $ntp = hiera_hash('ntp')
>
> case $::operatingsystem {
> 'freebsd': {
> file { "/etc/ntp.conf":
> ensure => file,
> recurse => true,
> purge => true,
> force => true,
> owner => "root",
> group => 0,
> mode => "0644",
> content => template('site/ntp/ntp.conf.epp'),
> #content => template('site/ntp/ntp.conf.erb'),
> }
> service { 'ntpd':
> ensure => 'running',
> enable => true,
> }
> service { 'ntpdate':
> enable => true,
> }
> }
> default: {
>
> class { 'ntp':
> servers => $ntp['servers'],
> }
>
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> The template:
>
> templates/ntp/ntp.conf.epp
> <% @ntp[’servers’].each { |server| -%>
> server: <%= server %>
> <% } -%>
>
> And this is the hiera (as of now there is only one ntp server but there'll be
> more in the future):
> ntp:
> servers:
> - 169.254.169.123
>
> Martin with the latest change I'm getting:
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER:
> Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement,
> Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Failed to parse
> template site/ntp/ntp.conf.epp:
> Filepath: /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/site/templates/ntp/ntp.conf.epp
> Line: 3
> Detail: undefined local variable or method `’servers’' for
> #<Puppet::Parser::TemplateWrapper:0x34a1bb52>
> (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/site/manifests/profiles/ntp.pp, line:
> 14, column: 31)
> Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
> On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 10:08:43 AM UTC-4 Martin Alfke wrote:
>> My example is an epp template.
>>
>> What name does the variable have? $ntp? And: is this a hash with servers key
>> set to an array?
>>
>> In this case your erb (!) template can look like the following:
>>
>> <% @ntp[’servers’].each { |server| -%>
>> server: <%= server %>
>> <% } -%>
>>
>>
>>> On 28. Mar 2023, at 14:37, Laci D <[email protected] <>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> Thank you Martin!
>>>
>>> I used your example and I think something is missing.
>>> Since "servers" is under "ntp" in the hiera file (see example in my
>>> original email) maybe we need to define that in the erb file?
>>>
>>>
>>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER:
>>> Internal Server Error: org.jruby.exceptions.SyntaxError: (SyntaxError)
>>> /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/site/templates/ntp/ntp.conf.erb:6: syntax
>>> error, unexpected tSTRING_BEG
>>> _erbout.<< "server: ".freeze; _erbout.<<((...
>>> ^
>>> Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
>>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 2:57:23 AM UTC-4 Martin Alfke wrote:
>>>> You must iterate as servers is an array:
>>>>
>>>> <% $servers.each |$server| { -%>
>>>> server: <%= $server %>
>>>> <%- } -%>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 27. Mar 2023, at 22:21, Laci D <lac...@ <>gmail.com
>>>>> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on defining NTP servers from Hiera.
>>>>>
>>>>> For Linux servers I have been using puppetlabs-ntp, which has been
>>>>> working nicely. Now I need to add support for FreeBSD. Above module
>>>>> doesn't support FreeBSD but I can edit ntp.conf with file resource type.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is where things got complicated, file adds extra ["..."] around the
>>>>> value form hiera, since it's an array. Array type is required for
>>>>> puppetlabs-ntp
>>>>> Question is how can I get rid of the extra squarely braces and double
>>>>> quotes?
>>>>> Rather than using a static file I'd like to stick to hiera since the ntp
>>>>> can very based on datacenter.
>>>>>
>>>>> /etc/ntp.conf
>>>>> server ["169.254.169.123"]
>>>>>
>>>>> Desired /etc/ntp.conf
>>>>> server 169.254.169.123
>>>>>
>>>>> hieradata/site.yaml
>>>>> ntp:
>>>>> servers:
>>>>> - 169.254.169.123
>>>>>
>>>>> templates/ntp/ntp.conf.erb
>>>>> server <%= @ntp['servers'] %>
>>>>>
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