Having difficulty understanding how to use hiera to replace params.pp

[gl00ten]

I somewhat understand how hiera works, I read overall the official guides and I saw the example here:

https://github.com/jfryman/puppet-nginx/blob/master/README.markdown
in the "Hiera Support" section

The thing is, all I see in that example are resources being defined.

What I want is to translate something I used to use in a manifest in a a previous version of jfryman-nginx:

class { "::nginx::params":
    worker_rlimit_nofile  => '30000',
    nx_worker_connections => '10240',
    nx_worker_processes   => '4',
}

into this new hiera-using version. But now I can't find where the list of these types of parameters are, and where they are described so I can defined them in hiera or something?

I know the specific parameters I used had their name changed before version 0.0.10, but I'm looking and wanting to use their current equivalent.

Can you help me or point me in the right direction?

[gl00ten]

So, I found similar names in /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/nginx/data/common.yaml:nginx::config:

Made a hieradata dir and put it into a new line in hiera yaml

:datadir: /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hieradata

Then I made a global.yaml inside that and defined those variables.

$ cat /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hieradata/global.yaml 
nginx::config::worker_rlimit_nofile: 30000
nginx::config::worker_connections: 10240
nginx::config::worker_processes: 4

Seems to be working, not sure this is the proper way.

[jfryman]

I apologize for this inconvenience. I ripped out puppet-module-data in the most recent release. Should be able to remove all this mess if you don't need it anymore. Take a look at the updated README and let me know if you have any questions.