[WHIRR-705] provide better integration between parameterized classes and Hiera

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.2
• Component/s: service/puppet
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 04/Mar/13 21:38
• Updated: 01/Apr/13 03:43
• Resolved: 01/Apr/13 03:43

Description

There's a lot of goodness that Hiera bring to the table. This is especially so when considering Puppet 3.0 (which would autoinitialize class parameters based on hiera values). I would like to propose that we:

1. export the cluster state to Hiera
2. provide an option of exporting arbitrary state to Hiera
3. provide an option of using Hiera as the means of passing parameters to the classes