hiera – get info from hiera data

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Retrieves data from an Puppetmaster node using Hiera as ENC

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local master node that executes this lookup.

  • hiera (command line utility)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_bin_file
-
Default:
"/usr/bin/hiera"
env:ANSIBLE_HIERA_BIN
Binary file to execute Hiera
_hiera_key
list / required
The list of keys to lookup on the Puppetmaster
_hierarchy_file
-
Default:
"/etc/hiera.yaml"
env:ANSIBLE_HIERA_CFG
File that describes the hierarchy of Hiera

Examples

# All this examples depends on hiera.yml that describes the hierarchy

- name: "a value from Hiera 'DB'"
  debug: msg={{ lookup('hiera', 'foo') }}

- name: "a value from a Hiera 'DB' on other environment"
  debug: msg={{ lookup('hiera', 'foo environment=production') }}

- name: "a value from a Hiera 'DB' for a concrete node"
  debug: msg={{ lookup('hiera', 'foo fqdn=puppet01.localdomain') }}

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key Returned Description
_raw
strings
a value associated with input key


Status

Authors

  • Juan Manuel Parrilla (@jparrill)

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