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Facter - custom fact, returns empty data set when invoked by Puppet agent

According to this puppet labs article, I can create custom facts from shell scripts. I have created a bash script that returns a single fact, it is packaged in a modules facts.d directory. The module is included on the target system via an ENC…
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Exclude ifaces from network related facters

I am looking for a way to exclude ifaces from the macaddress and the interfaces facter in order to make puppet run faster on certain hosts. These facts are built-in as far as I understand and I would like to make this happen without patching the…
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Puppet facts: should we use lsbdistid or operatingsystem?

With current versions of Puppet and Facter I get the same information in the lsbdistid and operatingsystem facts - I don't look at osfamily because on Gentoo Linux it reports a generic "Linux" string. When using that piece of information in Puppet…
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Clean up old Domain Name for Nodes in Puppet Dashboard

I changed the domain name for some servers, i.e. web1.foo.com to web1.baz.com. In my Puppet Dashboard, I see two entries now for the same server. I can destroy a node with something like rake node:fast_del name=web1.foo.com which seems to work (the…
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puppet: fact in manifest with dot

I'm using puppet 4.10.9 with facter 3.6.8. I have a question(s) regarding the use of facts in a manifest that I'll ask in a simple form, and a more complex form. First, the simple question. On an agent I can see the following addresses: facter…
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Modify puppet nodes.pp with regex based on network (facter) subnet coverage - needs peer review

For the puppet experts out there, I am trying to modify my node.pp based on the facter network. Example, I would like to have subnets 10.10.10.0 through 10.10.10.255 and 192.168.2.0 network to get the following puppet modules. In my nodes.pp does…
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Blank value in custom puppet fact

I know that the following custom fact matches the string I want, as if I add a 'puts' or 'print' ahead of the $1 it prints the correct string. But as show the fact returns nothing. A blank. Facter.add(:myhost) do confine :kernel => "Linux" …
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Facter (2.4.4) sets ipaddress to docker0 and not the ethernet interface (CentOS7)

Is there a way to fix this? Can I change the interfaces order? I have a lot of puppet modules that use $::ipaddress, works fine on CentOS 6 with docker but no on 7 interfaces => docker0,eno16780032,lo ipaddress => 172.17.42.1 ipaddress_docker0 =>…
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Facter: Custom-fact-script "was parsed but returned an empty data set"

For facter/puppet, I installed a one-line shell script. Several, actually. On subsequent runs, and with facter -p, I see the following output: Fact file /etc/facter/facts.d/system_facts_.sh was parsed but returned an empty data set If I…
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Facter does not show custom Puppet facts

facter does not show the custom facts while Puppetboard does. According to this source the paramater -p is required to show all facts including the custom once. I have tried it but the outcome seems to be identical to the outcome of facter. I tried…
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Can't install Facter 1.7.0 on Amazon Linux using PuppetLabs Yum repositories

I've installed Puppet using the setup guide but it seems I'm only able to install Puppet packages from the amzn-* repos, even though I have installed the PuppetLabs EL6 Yum repository using the instructions provided by…
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external fact not available at very first puppet run

Introduction: We are using puppet to configure the nodes via a custom fact which is then referenced in hiera. The fact can either reside in the golden image in /etc/facter/fact.d/ or via pluginsync (makes no difference, tested both) Versions: dpkg…
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Null / blank values on puppet facts

How can I quickly and easily state that a null / blank value is OK on a fact within puppet? When assembling a custom fact I'm doing something like the following: /puppet/production/modules/hosts/lib/facter Facter.add(:hostslocal) do setcode do …
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How to use custom facts with rspec Puppet

Is there a way I can use a custom fact while using rspec? My module works fine and the custom fact exists and works as intended when I do a puppet run on my agent, but when I try to use the same fact in rspec I get the following…
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Use Puppetdb for ENC variable?

I'm reading through the Puppet Documentation on adding a custom fact. Most of the information seems related to making module that runs on the agent. In my case I just want a simple environment variable that I could set from the master for each…
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