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| author | James Shubin <james@shubin.ca> | 2014-10-27 21:10:14 -0400 |
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| committer | James Shubin <james@shubin.ca> | 2014-10-27 21:10:14 -0400 |
| commit | 9c7190bffb6c6455dfe3751b6fac055ce59ca962 (patch) | |
| tree | b52816be9d5a65852be98cb292ae891f304ec5c2 /DOCUMENTATION.md | |
| parent | 8f848765e00f8fac93fa8c48ef4d499b506125c0 (diff) | |
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Add a section about hiera data in modules to the documentation.
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diff --git a/DOCUMENTATION.md b/DOCUMENTATION.md index 2d359b1..8e9ff24 100644 --- a/DOCUMENTATION.md +++ b/DOCUMENTATION.md @@ -506,6 +506,18 @@ things are found. The multi-distro support has been designed to make it particularly easy to add support for additional platforms. If your platform doesn't work, please submit a yaml data file with the platform specific values. +###How do I get the OS independent aspects of this module to work? +The OS independent aspects of this module use the hiera "data-in-modules" +technique. It is actually very simple to get this to work. For a longer write +up of this technique, please read: +[https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/hiera-data-in-modules-and-os-independent-puppet/](https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/hiera-data-in-modules-and-os-independent-puppet/) + +In short, this requires puppet version 3.0.0 or greater, and needs the +[module_data](https://github.com/ripienaar/puppet-module-data) +puppet module to be present on the puppet server in the _modules/_ directory. +The *module_data* code should be in a module folder named: *module_data/*. +That's it! + ###Awesome work, but it's missing support for a feature and/or platform! Since this is an Open Source / Free Software project that I also give away for |