Incompatible with Puppet-6

[pillarsdotnet]

Puppet-6 includes native support for hiera-eyaml.

When I ran this module against a freshly-provisioned puppetserver version 6.3, it removed the hiera-eyaml gem. (!!!)

[TJM]

I suppose that it is either present or absent there is no "just leave it the heck alone" option :)

[pillarsdotnet]

Not that I could find. Stared at the code for fifteen minutes and gave up.

[alexjfisher]

I don't think this is strictly true. I still use it with puppet 6.

class profile::hiera
{
  class { 'hiera':
    hiera_version      => '5',
    datadir_manage     => false,
    puppet_conf_manage => false,
    eyaml              => true,
    eyaml_gpg          => true,
    eyaml_extension    => 'yaml',
    create_keys        => false,
    provider           => 'puppetserver_gem',
    manage_package     => true,
    eyaml_gpg_version  => '0.7.3',
  }
}

The module did more for me in the past, but I still find a use for it now.

[alexjfisher]

@pillarsdotnet Could you share more details? How you're declaring the class, which OS, which puppet packages etc? I'm interested to see how we can make the default experience better.

[pillarsdotnet]

@alexjfisher

My apologies; I withdraw the accusation. After completely removing the puppet-hiera module, I'm still experiencing the same problem. The hiera-eyaml puppetserver_gem is present before the first puppet run, and absent afterwards. I've got a complete git diff of /etc/puppetlabs and /opt/puppetlabs and can't spot where it got removed. Very frustrating!