converting node inheritance to hiera

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Published on 2013-10-29T21:53:48Z Indexed on 2013/10/29 21:58 UTC
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I'm working on moving over a node inheritance tree to hiera. Presently working on the hierarchy. Prior to hiera, my nodes had a hierarchy as such

base
  pre-prod
    qa
      nodes
    staging
      nodes
    development
      nodes
  prod
    nodes

Now I'm trying to get the same tier with hiera. Starting out I have this

:hierarchy:
  - base
  - "%{environment}"
  - "%{clientcert}"

but I need another level to capture pre-prod and prod. My thought would be to add an entry to puppet.conf, something like

[agent]
realm = pre-prod

then

:hierarchy:
  - base
  - "%{realm}"
  - "%{environment}"
  - "%{clientcert}"

A couple of questions

Are you allowed to place arbitrary properties into puppet.conf?
Will hiera see the realm property?

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