hiera • man page

hiera - Lightweight Pluggable Hierarchical Database

hiera [options]

hiera is a simple pluggable hierarchical database.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-V, --version: Version information
-d, --debug: Show debugging information
-a, --array: Array search
-h, --hash: Hash search
-c, --config CONFIG: Configuration file
-j, --json SCOPE: JSON format file to load scope from
-y, --yaml SCOPE: YAML format file to load scope from
-m, --mcollective IDENTITY: Retrieve facts from a node via mcollective as scope
-i, --inventory_service IDENTITY Retrieve facts for a node via Puppet's inventory service as scope

hiera is a part of Puppet Hiera and developed by Puppet Labs <info@puppetlabs.com>, (R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net> respectively).

This man page was written by Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may also be used by others).