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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 |