Jira (PUP-7302) Puppet HTTP Node API: make fact_merge optional

[Nacho Barrientos (JIRA)]

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Nacho Barrientos created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7302 Puppet HTTP Node API: make fact_merge optional Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/03/04 3:31 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Nacho Barrientos Hi, In a Puppet installation with PuppetDB available, each call of the agents to the /node entrypoint of the Puppet HTTP API generates a call to PuppetDB's /vX/nodes/foo.example.com/facts if the list of facts is not cached on the master. This is very likely in our case because we have plenty of masters serving our agents and also because the TTL is 30 minutes, which is lower than our default Puppet run interval. This generates queries to PuppetDB which, unless I was missing something, are not necessary in our deployment and we'd rather to use those CPU cycles for something else. I fail to see how getting the list of last known facts as parameters are useful to the agent when calling /node (first request during a Puppet run). OTOH, we do need variables coming from the ENC like the environment, of course. We managed to avoid those queries in a development master by doing this hack: --- routes.yaml.orig 2017-03-04 11:19:52.164820233 +0100 +++ routes.yaml 2017-03-04 11:12:18.021435083 +0100 @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ --- master: facts: - terminus: puppetdb + terminus: yaml cache: yaml The Puppet agent run went fine, however this configuration prevents later on the masters from sending commands to PuppetDB to replace facts which is something we'd like to keep. Would you take into consideration a patch to, behind a setting, make this behaviour optional? Thank you! Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.