Puppet 6 and module puppetlabs/accounts hiera yaml does not fill content - puppet

Question

I am attempting to define my user accounts as Hashes in Hiera, like this:
---
accounts::user:
jack:
ensure: present
bashrc_content: file('accounts/shell/bashrc')
bash_profile_content: file('accounts/shell/bash_profile')
It works fine if I define them in my *.pp files.
Please, find more details about hiera.yaml, manifest and users.yamal on Gist
Why doesn't this work?
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Answer 1

No, what you are trying to do is not possible.
I have a few options for you. In Hiera, you could have all of the data other than the call to the file() function:
---
accounts::user:
jack:
locked: false
comment: Jack Doe
ensure: present
groups:
- admins
- sudo
shell: '/bin/bash'
home_mode: '0700'
purge_sshkeys: false
managehome: true
managevim: false
sshkeys:
- ssh-rsa AAAA
password: '70'
And then in your manifest:
$defaults = {
'bashrc_content' => file('accounts/shell/bashrc'),
'bash_profile_content' => file('accounts/shell/bash_profile'),
}
$user_data = lookup('accounts::user', Hash[String,Hash], 'hash', {})
$user_data.each |$user,$props| {
accounts::user { $user: * => $props + $defaults }
}
Another option is to simply include your file content in the YAML data, i.e.
---
accounts::user:
jack:
locked: false
comment: Jack Doe
ensure: present
groups:
- admins
- sudo
shell: '/bin/bash'
home_mode: '0700'
purge_sshkeys: false
managehome: true
managevim: false
bashrc_content: |
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc # --> Read /etc/bashrc, if present.
fi
...
bash_profile_content: ...
sshkeys:
- ssh-rsa AAAA
password: '70'
Then you won't need the file function or the files at all.
For more info:
On what you can interpolate in Hiera data.
The splat operator (*) and a useful blog on how to use it.
On multiline-strings in YAML.