system_updates module: Example for Mark in Slack

common.yaml

---
message: "this is data in common.yaml"

debian.yaml

---
system_updates::update_cmd: 'apt upgrade -y'

hiera.yaml

---
version: 5

defaults:
  datadir: "data"

hierarchy:
  - name: 'Yaml backend'
    data_hash: yaml_data
    paths:
      - "nodes/%{trusted.certname}.yaml"
      - "%{environment}.yaml"
      - "%{facts.os.family}.yaml"
      - 'common.yaml'

init.pp

class system_updates (
  String[1] $update_cmd,
) {

  notify { 'system_updates module': withpath => true}
  notify { "update_cmd is ${update_cmd}": withpath => true}

  # Note: This is not valid code, but I'll let you figure it out.
  include system_updates::barf($update_cmd)

}

redhat.yaml

---
system_updates::update_cmd: 'yum -y update'

$ tree system_updates/
system_updates
├── data
│   ├── common.yaml
│   ├── debian.yaml
│   └── redhat.yaml
├── hiera.yaml
└── manifests
    └── init.pp

2 directories, 5 files