Write data: Set values in common data

Set values in your common data — the level at the bottom of your hierarchy.

This hierarchy level uses the YAML backend for data, which means the data goes into a YAML file. To know where to put that file, combine the following pieces of information:

  • The current environment’s directory.

  • The data directory, which is a subdirectory of the environment. By default, it's <ENVIRONMENT>/data.

  • The file path specified by the hierarchy level.

In this case, /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/ + data/ + common.yaml.

  1. Open that YAML file in an editor, and set values for two of the class’s parameters. 

    # /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/data/common.yaml
---
profile::hiera_test::ssl: false
profile::hiera_test::backups_enabled: true

    The third parameter, $site_alias, has a default value defined in code, so you can omit it from the data.