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Hiera-Files

Description

Used to generate a one or more file/configuration files from a hiera based data source

Usage

The bin/cfg command can be used to generate the rendered file;

[jest@starfury hiera-files] $ bin/cfg --help

Usage: cfg [options] -h, --help display this usage menu --dry-run perform a dry-run of the configuration generation -c, --config CONFIG an alternative hiera configuration file -v, --verbose switch on verbose mode

  commands : -------------------------------------------------------------
  render (ren)                     render the configuration files from hiera data
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  render : description: render the configuration files from hiera data
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  -f, --filter FILTER              a filter to the files in the directory (defaults: *.erb)
  -d, --directory DIRECTORY        the directory containing the configuration files (defaults: ./)
  -h, --hiera DIRECTORY            override the directory holding the hiera data (defaults: ./hieradata)
  -b, --base DIRECTORY             write the generated files into this directory (defaults: ./)
  -s, --scope FILE                 a yaml backed file contains the scope
  -e, --entry KEY=VALUE            add a entry into the scope
  -w, --write                      write generated configuration files to disk: config.conf.erb -> config.conf

Example

Assumptions;

We have a collection of configuration files located in ./config/
We have the hiera data located in ./data
We want to write out the rendered files to ./generated

[jest@starfury hiera-files] $ ./cfg ren -d ./configs/ -h ./data -b ./generated

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