Deployment fails validating NTP servers

[Carlos Goncalves]

CentOS 8 + TripleO standalone deployment fails validating NTP servers.

ASK [Ensure network service is enabled] ***************************************
Wednesday 01 April 2020 07:53:53 +0000 (0:00:00.102) 0:00:28.219 *******
changed: [standalone-1]

ASK [AllNodesValidationConfig] ************************************************
Wednesday 01 April 2020 07:53:54 +0000 (0:00:00.826) 0:00:29.046 *******
fatal: [standalone-1]: FAILED! => changed=true
  msg: non-zero return code
  rc: 1
  stderr: |-
    Failed to start Hiera: RuntimeError: Config file /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml not found
  stderr_lines: <omitted>
  stdout: |-
    Trying to ping default gateway 192.168.121.1...Ping to 192.168.121.1 succeeded.
    SUCCESS
    Trying to ping 10.20.30.40 for local network 10.20.30.0/24.
    Ping to 10.20.30.40 succeeded.
    SUCCESS
    Testing NTP...FAILURE
  stdout_lines: <omitted>

O MORE HOSTS LEFT *************************************************************

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
standalone-1 : ok=49 changed=26 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=6 rescued=0 ignored=0
undercloud : ok=7 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

Configuration file /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml does not exist. Hiera should use /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml instead.

[vagrant@standalone-1 ~]$ sudo hiera -c ntp::servers nil |tr -d '[],"'
Cannot find config file: ntp::servers

[vagrant@standalone-1 ~]$ sudo hiera -c /etc/puppet/hiera.yaml ntp::servers nil |tr -d '[],"'
nil

https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/blob/590496e1084bf70c5e47fbfc7ed61bca6f6c599c/validation-scripts/all-nodes.sh#L103

[Carlos Goncalves (cgoncalves)]

I believe we don't see this error in CI because validations are disabled in the CI scenarios.

https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/blob/master/ci/common/all-nodes-validation-disabled.yaml

[Rabi Mishra (rabi)]

Sounds like a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1869842. Bad version of puppet from epel.