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Sure. Hiera data can be accessed in a manifest, from there you can run a hash-generating function, assign the resultant value to a variable, and use the variable as the <https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/8/types/file.html#file-attribute-content|'content' attribute of a file resource>. This assumes the hash-generating function is a Puppet function, or can be made into one.

there's also a stdlib function for to_json and to_yaml

so you don't need to template it in a lot of cases

I guess this can be fixed by installing the net-snmp ruby gem into the puppetserver ruby environment.. maybe you did this for puppetserver v7 before manually (or it was bundled somehow)

```/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/2.7.0/net/smtp.rb```
Looks like it came bundled?

You’ll need to install the smtp gem into puppetserver’s JRuby: `puppetserver gem install net-smtp`  Longer version is net-smtp is no longer a default gem in <https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/12/25/ruby-3-1-0-released/|Ruby 3.1> (and puppetserver’s JRuby is 3.1 compatible)

you can generate a tls cert on the puppetserver. there is a cli option to add the extension

or you use csr attributes on the agent to add it

or, what I prefer, you dont add the extension, but update the auth.conf to allow the agent cert for the ednpoints you need

Ohh the `csr_attributes.yaml` route. Might go with that as that seems easy enough. Thanks!

I can promise you we aren't caught up on backlog enough to have them on 6/11.

are there plans to make the whole build setup more public and add documentation, so community members can contribute code, like support for a new OS?

I know vanagon is used, but as far as I know it still heavily relies on internal jenkins and other voodoo that's not public

In terms of puppet agent... EL9 support has been around for awhile now <https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppet/el/9/x86_64/index.html>

Though, no server support yet. Conceivably you could install from source, but I would suggest putting your server on RHEL 8 for now.

Side note: adoption of RHEL 9 has been generally slow across the board due to Red Hat's history of new OS releases not truly being stable for at least a year into release, plus the shenanigans around CentOS. Many customers are still working on adopting RHEL 8 or figuring out whether to jump to Rocky or AlmaLinux and haven't started really considering what they're going to do with RHEL 9

we're literally just kicking off Rocky 9 here

as soon as I get puppet 8 server + el9 support I'm going to migrate from 6 to 8 :neutral_face: and fix a couple mistakes I made in the puppet 6 architecture (puppetdb things)

Thanks for the feedback. It’s good to know that there’s a puppet agent package already. May consider containerizing the puppet servers.

Well, hey, pupperware exists <https://github.com/puppetlabs/pupperware>

From <https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/hiera_intro.html|https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/hiera_intro.html> , 

&gt; Use the roles and profiles method to manage less data in Hiera. Sorting hundreds of class parameters is easier than sorting thousands.
We use roles and profiles pretty much exclusively, but I’m drawing a blank on what the above section means. How does roles and profiles reduce the number of class parameters you’re managing?

probably because you're reusing profiles, which have their own parameters, instead of every role duplicating code and parameters.

that’s a nuanced statement, but I’ll wait for Rob’s take

it's an awkward construct for sure, though, because it doesn't specify exactly what it's comparing it to.

I think the thought process on it is that your profile sets out a set of standards for most things and only exposes the things you want the user to modify (or that they have to modify)

yep. and if possible the profiles have sane defaults

Why does bundler insist on pulling down the Puppet gem at version `7.21.0` rather than the latest 7.x release of `7.24.0`?

tl;dr it's a bundler bug. there' some backstory in <#C0W1Y5VL0|> from last wednesday? night

you need to update the github action to pin to `.24`

<@U112RM52S> <https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-vault_lookup/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L48>

<https://github.com/voxpupuli/gha-puppet/pull/30> see also

quick, release it before it breaks again!

“and I just hate software and everything” :allthethings:

:the_more_you_know: _Content and Tooling_ is about to start up in <#CFD8Z9A4T|>