community.general.hiera – get info from hiera data

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• Retrieves data from an Puppetmaster node using Hiera as ENC

Requirements

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

• hiera (command line utility)

Parameters

Examples

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

- name: "a value from Hiera 'DB'"
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.general.hiera', 'foo') }}"

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

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

Return Values

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

Authors

• Juan Manuel Parrilla (@jparrill)