diff --git a/hiera.yaml b/hiera.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f97619f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hiera.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+version: 4
+datadir: data
+hierarchy:
+  - name: "OS family"
+    backend: yaml
+    path: "osfamily/%{facts.os.family}"
+  - name: "common"
+    backend: yaml
diff --git a/metadata.json b/metadata.json
index 6a7424e..1f0d988 100644
--- a/metadata.json
+++ b/metadata.json
@@ -30,5 +30,6 @@
     { "name": "puppetlabs/stdlib" },
     { "name": "puppetlabs/concat", "version_requirement": ">=1.0.0 <2.0.0" },
     { "name": "ripienaar/module_data", "version_requirement": ">=0.0.3" }
-  ]
+  ],
+  "data_provider": "hiera"
 }