puppet template

varnishncsa.erb

daemon_opts=(-a -w "$logfile" -D -F "{ \"remote_addr\": \"%h\",
    \"remote_user\": \"%u\",
    \"x_forwarded_for\": \"%{X-Forwarded-For}i\",
    \"hit_miss\": \"%{Varnish:hitmiss}x\",
    \"body_bytes_sent\": \"%b\",
    \"request_time\": \"%{Varnish:time_firstbyte}x\",
    \"status\": \"%s\",
    \"request\": \"%r\",\"host\": \"%{host}i\",
    \"request_method\": \"%m\",
    \"time_first_byte\": \"%{Varnish:time_firstbyte}x\",
    \"handling\": \"%{Varnish:handling}x\",
    \"http_referrer\": \"%{Referrer}i\",
    \"http_user_agent\": \"%{User-agent}i\"}\"")

This is the exact text as it should be in /etc/init.d/varnishncsa

puppet needs Hiera 1.0.x or newer to properly interpret %{}

The work around is to put all instances of %{} directly into the template file.