Defining vhosts in Hiera

[stevelacey]

I am probably just doing Hiera wrong... but this does nothing for me:

hiera/common.yaml:

---
nginx::config::worker_processes: "%{::processorcount}"

nginx::nginx_vhosts:
  "%{::fqdn}":
    www_root: "/var/www/%{::fqdn}"

In my node:

include nginx
include nginx::config

I think the Hiera is at least right my worker_processes gets set, and the following is returned if I run this on the master:

hiera -c /etc/puppet/current/hiera.yaml nginx::nginx_vhosts ::fqdn=test 
=> {"test"=>{"www_root"=>"/var/www/test"}}

Do I need to define something specific to the vhost or vhosts in general in my manifest to trigger it pulling in the vhost settings? nginx::resource::vhost { $::fqdn: } moans about no params passed – i.e. it can't see the www_root.

[stevelacey]

So either I am missing the point, or you have to do this:

  class { "nginx":
    geo_mappings          => hiera("nginx::geo_mappings", {}),
    string_mappings       => hiera("nginx::string_mappings", {}),
    nginx_locations       => hiera("nginx::nginx_locations", {}),
    nginx_mailhosts       => hiera("nginx::nginx_mailhosts", {}),
    nginx_upstreams       => hiera("nginx::nginx_upstreams", {}),
    nginx_vhosts          => hiera("nginx::nginx_vhosts", {}),
    nginx_vhosts_defaults => hiera("nginx::nginx_vhosts_defaults", {}),
  }

  include nginx::config

Either I am doing things wrong, and if so, please correct me… or seriously, document this, in the README, or hiera doc file, in big ass letters.

I assume these aren't the defaults as it would cause hiera-less users errors?

[samchang-iit]

I seem to have had something similar, and i fixed it by changing
include nginx
to
include ::nginx

[wyardley]

@stevelacey: is this still a problem, or can we close this out?

[stevelacey]

I don't use Puppet anymore, so it's not a problem for me at least 😉