Hi,
I have a large Hiera file that I want to use for a module that creates
accounts on my systems. The module is
https://forge.puppetlabs.com/torrancew/account
In any case the issue is I get an error
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: execution expired
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
Error: Could not run Puppet configuration client: execution expired
It seems there is a timeout that causes a failure of puppet. This is certainly
because of the large time due to compile due to all of the accounts I have placed in my
hiera.yaml file.
My question is whether or not it is possible to configure puppet to
extend the time for compilation to take these large hiera files into
account, or if there are any suggestions on how to improve things to
increase the time to compile the yaml file?
At the end of the day I do not really need the accounts as much as I
just need the usernames on these systems due to the storage system we
use. I do not want to have a central user management system as that
creates a single point of failure. So that means I could in fact just
have puppet manage a static file that adds to the /etc/passwd file. However this would be inconsistent with my systems that have a more reasonable amount of users. 
Terrence