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Integration with Puppet

As a Hiera backend

Jerakia can be configured as a Hiera backend

$ vim /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml

---
:backends: [ 'jerakia' ]

or add it as an additional data source:

As a Puppet data binding terminus

---
:backends:
  - jerakia

If you are migrating an existing, or unknown code base we would recommend you keep Hiera configured as a backend to catch any lookups that are made with the hiera, hiera_hash or hiera_array functions. But for all other lookups you can route them straight to Puppet by bypassing Hiera altogether and using Jerakia as a data binding terminus

$ vim /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

[master]
  ...
  data_binding_terminus = jerakia

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