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| author |   Michele Baldessari <michele@acksyn.org> | 2017-02-20 20:18:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Michele Baldessari <michele@acksyn.org> | 2017-02-21 22:16:05 +0100 |
| commit | 8974f54eb97bbc7397b933e5f74e1aa9b56f19f6 (patch) | |
| tree | ad8697038e9800841251f8679230c4b0d3ca528d /puppet/services | |
| parent | 8c4b42a363c97d2d61edda788d2e5af534e01fbd (diff) | |
Improve the README for the _setting keys
It is not entirely clear to someone writing their
own templates how to distribute hiera keys to different
roles. Let's clear this up with a more extensive description.
Change-Id: I02224389c2de90bc5534bce764e5e9d3bb23538f
Diffstat (limited to 'puppet/services')
| -rw-r--r-- | puppet/services/README.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/puppet/services/README.rst b/puppet/services/README.rst index 9c2d8c5c..e5c11535 100644 --- a/puppet/services/README.rst +++ b/puppet/services/README.rst @@ -19,8 +19,21 @@ environment to set per service parameters. Config Settings --------------- -Each service may define a config_settings output variable which returns -Hiera settings to be configured. +Each service may define three ways in which to output variables to configure Hiera +settings on the nodes. + + * config_settings: the hiera keys will be pushed on all roles of which the service + is a part of. + + * global_config_settings: the hiera keys will be distributed to all roles + + * service_config_settings: Takes an extra key to wire in values that are + defined for a service that need to be consumed by some other service. + For example: + service_config_settings: + haproxy: + foo: bar + This will set the hiera key 'foo' on all roles where haproxy is included. Deployment Steps ---------------- |