how can i test hiera roles using beaker?

[developerinlondon]

whats the best way to test specific hiera roles using puppet beaker? i would rather load up the particular hiera role in question then to have to specify all the settings manually inside my tests.

is there any examples for this?

[electrical]

Hi,

We recently added support in beaker to make it easier to manage the hiera.yaml file and hieradata directory.
In my module here i make use of them.
The copy_hiera_data_to function allows to transfer hiera files from the repo to the host. See here
The write_hiera_config function writes out the hiera config file. As argument you can supply the hierarchy.
In an example file here I use that function several times to write a new config and set a new hiera file to be processed.

I hope this helps with your question?

[anodelman]

This would be a better topic for the google group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/puppet-beaker

Otherwise, I think that @electrical has given a good reply so closing out.