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How to access hiera data which is within a Puppet module

If I create a simple manifest and access the system defined hiera data, it works fine

$testvar=hiera('some var defined at system level')
notify { "Hiera message is $testvar":}

However, if I attempt to access data that is stored within some module ( downloaded from forge ) it does not

include some_module_from_forge
$testvar=hiera('some var defined in the modules hiera')
notify { "Hiera message is $testvar":}

What am I doing wrong ?

Solution

  • Use lookup("module::param") rather than the hiera function when using module data.