Jira (FACT-2666) Puppet lookup CLI loads external Facts on the initiating node

[Marty Ewings (Jira)]

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Marty Ewings created an issue   Facter / FACT-2666 Puppet lookup CLI loads external Facts on the initiating node Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2020/06/17 2:25 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Marty Ewings Puppet lookup CLI loads external Facts on the initiating node, which causes problems as the execution time of these facts is an unknown and limitless variable, which is harmful in needlessly increasing the round trip time of a hiera lookup, which is unfavorable in an automation environment   Reproduction,   In an environment where external facts are plugin synced to the local machine, run a puppet lookup with the --debug flag turned on.  puppet lookup --node doesntexist foo --debug This will show the fact resolution on  the local machine     $ puppet lookup --node doesntexist foo --debug ... Debug: Facter: resolving facts from executable file "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/slow.rb". Debug: Facter: executing command: /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/slow.rb Debug: Facter: slow=true Debug: Facter: SLOW FACT Debug: Facter: process exited with status code 0. Debug: Facter: fact "slow" has resolved to "true". Warning: Facter: external fact file "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/slow.rb" had output on stderr: SLOW FACT       details:  it seems the external fact resolution may have been explicitly added in https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/blob/bebd6ce74cb735a6393691f0c445b328b59a0a44/lib/src/ruby/ruby.cc#L24 for https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-1277         Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.363107.1592385941000.89177.1592385960063%40Atlassian.JIRA.