For the third consideration in the previous best practice, there's another decision to make around how data arrives into the profile class from your business data hierarchy:
- In these profiles, we have used the automatic class parameter lookup (https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.3/hiera_automatic.html) to request data from our business data hierarchy. Using the interface of the profile's parameters is a reliable and well-known way to look for the profile's configuration settings, and allows better integration with external tools, such as Puppet Strings (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-strings), the YARD-based (https://yardoc.org) documentation extraction and ...
