Usually you set the agent's environment in puppet.conf

[main]
environment = qa

for example.

No. Hiera is for storing and retrieveing data used as part of a Puppet run. What you’re describing is called node classification and assigning an “environment”. That’s either done manually like Yorokobi showed above, or automatically with an “External Node Classifier” (ENC).

I think ENC is what I was looking for

thanks @natemccurdy! I'll jump into that. And If I'm correct the ENC can override the local setting in the puppet.conf

Yes, ENC’s take precedence. Though there is the option to write it so that the agent takes precedence.

Thanks nate!

Maybe some variant of: `bolt command run --targets all 'puppet facts upload --server new-puppetser.example`'

Maybe some variant of:

bolt command run --targets all 'puppet facts upload --server new-puppetser.example'

Maybe some variant of:

bolt command run --targets all 'puppet facts upload --server new-puppetserver.example'

https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/ruby has been deprecated, but I see no reason for the deprecation, nor any recommendation for a replacement.

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I've a question about the

/v3/facts

API endpoint on Puppetserver: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/http_api/http_facts.html what's the purpose of the

expiration

key in the payload? Does Puppetdb use that for anything?

thanks @bastelfreak, so I have to convert the jsonfile to class.. class moduleName::jsonfile and the requires attributes will work like before right ?

Yes I tested that it works thank you 🙂 @bastelfreak. Its possible to edit those files with Python ? Pyyaml cannot read class like that. do you have any idea or suggestion ?

also https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-syntax can be used for json files

What do in case of csr_attribute file is not available on the server and also server is not contactable to puppet master.

When using the PDK to create a new resource, can a

:namevar

be something other than a String? If so how can I get a regex in the

title_patterns

to capture a value as an Integer or something else? (Am a bit of Ruby noob.)

generally, the pdk isn't used to create a new resource, it's used to create modules, classes, subclasses, defined types, etc (

pdk new help

). Once created, you just add the resources as needed. https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6/type.html

if you can be more specific about what you want to accomplish, we can probably be of more help

generally, the pdk isn't used to create a new resource, it's used to create modules, classes, subclasses, defined types, etc (

pdk new help

). Once created, you just add the resources as needed. https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6/type.html

This is what I’m looking at. I’m creating a resource type for Foreman’s smart proxy to added DNS entries beyond the scope of the Foreman API.

I believe that the title needs to be a string at the end of the day

Correct. Resource titles must be strings.

typically, the title is used directly as the namevar, but sometimes that isn't enough and you can use two parameters (or more) to uniquely identify a resource (e.g. the title and the path for a file resource)

so you can either put the burden of uniqueness on the user of your new type/resource or you can give them a hand. In the case of the file resource, you wouldn't want the situation where someone had

file { 'mydnsfile':
  path => '/etc/resolv.conf',
  mode => '0664',
}

file { 'resolverfile':
  path => '/etc/resolv.conf',
  mode => '0644',
}

you'd put puppet in a situation where you had a conflict about what you would want done, so you need to make path the namevar to guarantee that only one resource can own a file.

I’m a 100% on that fact namevars have to be strings. My question is when defining the resource type using the PDK can the namevars I extract from the string be converted to other ruby types? are there any methods or definitions in the PDK resource API to define that conversion?

I’m a 100% on that fact namevars have to be strings. My question is when defining the resource type using the PDK can the namevars I extract from the string be converted to other ruby types? are there any methods or definitions in the PDK resource API to define that conversion?

it's ruby, so I assume yes. I'd probably be looking at defining other parameters rather than try and pass all the data via the title string