Puppet Loaction of Hiera yaml file in puppet

Question

I wish to include a few configurations to be defined in a hiera.yaml file rather than the usual puppet manifests, but i have no clue where this hiera.yaml is to be based. Where exactly should i place this config file?

Answer 1

The Hiera configuration file is called hiera.yaml. It configures the hierarchy for a given layer of data.

Location of hiera.yaml files:

There are several hiera.yaml files in a typical deployment. 

Hiera uses three layers of configuration, and the module and environment layers typically have multiple instances.

The configuration file locations for each layer:

Layer                                     Location

Global                                   $confdir/hiera.yaml

Environment                        <ENVIRONMENT>/hiera.yaml

Module                                <MODULE>/hiera.yaml