As part of puppet master migration to stretch we'd need to migrate to hiera 3 (3.2.0 in stretch). @Joe has published https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/402346/ for one of our hiera backends which addresses the migration.
Also when I put rhodium into rotation I noticed ganeti nodes were failing compilation while looking up keys with dots, so that might be related to the upgrade as well ("segmented keys")