Get puppet::server from hiera

[claflico]

I use the role/profile method and add the following to my base profile manifest so that puppet gets managed on all nodes:

class { 'puppet': }

I try to keep my manifests as generic as possible so I put as much as I can in hiera. It would be preferred to be able to read in "puppet::server: true" from my roles/puppetmaster.yaml file rather than having to either leave my base profile manifest out of my puppetmaster role manifest...or come up with an if/else of some sort so that I'm not declaring it twice.

[jlambert121]

I'm not following why you can't add this parameter in hiera (that's how I do it). The default is false, so you only need to specify puppet::server: true at the hiera level that your puppet masters are in.

[Wicaeed]

I'm having a someone similar issue, but with trying to manage the Puppet Agent instead of the server, however my problem looks very similar to the one @claflico is having.

My test system has a role assigned via hiera, and that role loads a class profile::puppet::puppet_agent amongst others

class profile::puppet::puppet_agent {
  include ::puppet

  firewall { '121 Open Firewall ports for Puppet Server connections':
    dport   => 8140,
    proto   => tcp,
    action  => accept,
  }
}

The actual per-system configuration is handled via hiera by the servers clientcert name. I know the role/profile apply properly because I can see the firewall rule being created, and the first puppet run shows that the puppet service scheduling is being handled by cron instead of running as a service, as well as other default settings being set.

If I go to the machines servername.fqdn.yaml file and insert an override to manage the Puppet Agent service as a service instead of a cron, eg:

---
puppet::agent::runmode: 'service'

Nothing ever shows up on a new run of the Puppet agent, or even when I run it manually and specify my testing environment:

./puppet agent -t --environment puppet_agent
Info: Using configured environment 'puppet_agent'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for devbox.local.home
Info: Applying configuration version '1454381880'
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.59 seconds

Any chance this is related, or should I open up a new issue?

[jlambert121]

@Wicaeed: You should be setting parameters in the main class, not the subclass.

---
puppet::runmode: service