Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The earlier incarnations of Hiera (version 3 or earlier) used a single, entirely global hiera.yaml."

A block of code is set as follows:

lookup({   'name'  => 'classification',   'merge' => {     'strategy'        => 'deep',     'knockout_prefix' => '--',   }, })

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

lookup({   'name'  => 'classification',   'merge' => {     'strategy' => 'deep',     'knockout_prefix' => '--',   }, })

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