Create repos via hiera.

[madelaney]

I'd like to have all of my aptly configuration be done by hiera, as such, I'd like to be able to create repos/mirrors via hiera hashes.

[ansgarwiechers]

You can always do something like this:

$repos = lookup('my::repos', Hash, 'deep', {})
unless empty($repos) {
  ensure_resources('aptly::repo', $repos)
}

which you may have to do anyway, because Puppet ignores the hiera merge behavior definition and always uses the strategy "first".

Even if you defined something like this (assuming the module had a parameter repos):

class { '::aptly':
  repos => lookup('aptly::repos', Hash, 'deep', {}),
}

Puppet would implicitly do a lookup('aptly::repos', Hash, 'first', {}) and ignore everything else. You'd have to do a lookup on a differntly named key to get around this (not configurable) behavior:

class { '::aptly':
  repos => lookup('my::repos', Hash, 'deep', {}),
}