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  1. Puppet
  2. PUP-7554

Puppet runs fail when hiera.yaml version 3 detected in a module

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Blocker
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • PUP 4.10.1
    • PUP 4.10.2, PUP 5.0.0
    • None

    • PE 2016.4.5 with Hiera.yaml 3 files in modules

    • Agent
    • 1
    • Agent 2017-05-31, Agent 2017-06-14
    • Major
    • Customers will experience failures with the existing code set upon an upgrade to the latest LTS release.
    • Bug Fix
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      With the introduction of Hiera 5 there were errors if a module or environment root contained a hiera.yaml in the hiera 3 format. These files were never used earlier, but now those files are part of the hiera 5 configuration. The issue is fixed by ignoring the files if they are version 3 and by logging a warning when encountered. Best practice is to migrate to hiera 5, and otherwise to move those files out of the way.
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      With the introduction of Hiera 5 there were errors if a module or environment root contained a hiera.yaml in the hiera 3 format. These files were never used earlier, but now those files are part of the hiera 5 configuration. The issue is fixed by ignoring the files if they are version 3 and by logging a warning when encountered. Best practice is to migrate to hiera 5, and otherwise to move those files out of the way.
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    • covered by unit tests

    Description

      This is a regression when upgrading from the 2016.4.x LTS to 2016.4.5. Puppet version 4.10.1 runs fail when an hiera.yaml version 3 file is found in the module. For a number of reasons, customers may have hiera.yaml files in modules and the environment. There should be a warning about the version and it should be ignores instead of causing a failure.

      Impact
      Customers that upgrade to the latest LTS which have hiera.yaml 3 files in their modules will have failures. The upgrade should allow for customers to migrate into a hiera 5 type environment without failures.

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