Puppet - Multiple Roles in Hiera - puppet

Question

I'm trying (and struggling) to get a (multiple) role model implemented in Hiera.
I've worked in the last 2 years with exact the same model as a user and now want to rebuild the same structure on my own. For example, my node.yaml should contain only the roles I want to apply onto the host:
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/nodes/my.host.de.yaml
classes:
- ydixken_baseinstall
- additional_modules
[...]
For me it's way more intuitive, to place a yaml in the roles/ directory, with the name of the role, and avoid dealing with profiles:
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/roles/ydixken_baseinstall.yaml
classes:
- apt
- unattended_upgrades
- [...]
apt::update:
frequency: 'daily'
loglevel: 'debug'
[...]
Placing the role definitions as a node fact is not practicable for me. It's also nice-to-have to allow a customization of the already defined values inside of the node configuration, if needed.
Right now my directory, hiera.yaml & file-structure looks like this:
/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml
version: 5
defaults:
datadir: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production
data_hash: yaml_data
hierarchy:
- name: "Per-node data (yaml version)"
paths:
- "nodes/%{fqdn}.yaml"
- "roles/%{role}.yaml"
- common
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/hiera.yaml
version: 5
defaults:
hierarchy:
- name: "FQDN"
path: "nodes/%{fqdn}.yaml"
- name: "Roles"
path: "roles/%{role}.yaml"
- name: "Common Data"
path: "common.yaml"
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp
hiera_include('classes')
How can i achieve this?
My current error:
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not find class ::ydixken_baseinstall for my.host.de (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp, line: 1, column: 1) on node my.host.de

Answer 1

I've found exactly, what i was looking for: r10k