atih / puppet-facts

Simple facts creation for puppet

facts

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Setup requirements
3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
4. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
5. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

Description

his module allows you to create Puppet Facts using Puppet code or your ENC.

This can be useful to document your machines or even your Puppet classes. A class could for example create it's own Fact, which when queried by a different class, could determine if the class has been applied to the machine or any other state that might be interesting to report.

Setup Requirements

Works with facter >= 1.7

Usage

In your code, you can use :

class { facts: instances => { server_comment: { value: "Dont reboot me!" } } }

Reference

Class: facts

Manage facts and module Configuration

Parameters (all optional)

• instances: Hash of containing the facts::instance to realize. Defaults: {}

• facterpath: Path where files are created. Defaults:

  • Windows: %programdata%\PuppetLabs\facter\facts.d
  • other: /etc/facter/facts.d

Defined Type: facts::instance

Specifies a fact to create on the host

Parameters

• ensure: Specifies if the fact must be present or not. Defaults: present

• factname: Specifies the fact's name. Defaults: $name

• value: Specifies the content of the fact, can be a static value or a script. Defaults: null

Limitations

Tested on Debian, Solaris and Windows 2012 R2. Might work on other platforms by specifying the facterpath