Hiera

[axelag]

Hello,
is there any way to create a network interface and routes with Hiera? I can't seem to do it, any examples?

[antaflos]

A wrapper profile like the following should work. Assuming you known of and follow the Roles & Profiles pattern that has been long established as a best practice in Puppet:

class profile::network {
  $if_defaults = lookup('profile::network::interface_defaults', Hash, 'deep', {})
  $interfaces = lookup('profile::network::interfaces', Hash, 'deep', {})

  $route_defaults = lookup('profile::network::route_defaults', Hash, 'deep', {})
  $routes = lookup('profile::network::routes', Hash, 'deep', {})

  create_resources('network_config', $interfaces, $if_defaults)
  create_resources('network_route',  $routes, $route_defaults)
}

You Puppet node should include 'profile::network', then in Hiera you can do something like this:

profile::network::interfaces:
  lo:
    ensure: present
    family: inet
    method: loopback
  enp5s0:
    ensure: present
    family: inet
    method: static
    address: 10.1.2.3/24
    options:
      gateway: 10.1.2.1