Is it possible to ensure the fpm service from hiera?

[jamesj2]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 5.5.8
• Ruby: 2.4.4p296
• Distribution: docker
• Module version: 7.1.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

Hiera:

php::fpm_service_enable: false
php::fpm_service_ensure: null

Manifest:

include ::php

What are you seeing

Module starts FPM service every puppet run. Unable to unset the ensure parameter for the php fpm service. I use corosync/pacemaker to manage this service and sometimes it's running and sometimes it's not.

What behaviour did you expect instead

FPM service should not start

Output log

Notice: /Stage[main]/Php::Fpm::Service/Service[php74-php-fpm]/ensure: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running' (corrective)

Any additional information you'd like to impart

The php::fpm_service_enable setting works but the php::fpm_service_ensure always is overwritten with the default of "running".

[kenyon]

@jamesj2 null is not one of the options for ensure on services: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/types/service.html#service-attribute-ensure

You can also set enable to mask to prevent the service from starting, assuming systemd.

[jamesj2]

I made a fork and used lookup() to use hiera as the default and use the params if it's not present. But your solution would work, I didn't think of that. Thanks!