A config file for facter is intriguing to me. Would this solely be used to change behaviors when running facter, or do you see some potential for defining some facts within the config itself?
Also, would you move facter specific configs into this facter.conf instead of being managed from the puppet.conf file (ie: cfacter, factpath, fact_terminus)? The only problem I sometimes encounter, which may be a usage issue on my part, is when creating custom facts sometimes it'd be nice to just run `facter my_custom_fact` to get the output. If there would be some way to register custom facts so that facter picks them up without having to run puppet or run the ruby code the custom fact is in manually, that would be interesting. If that already exists I haven't found how to do that. Either way, I think a config where you can either specify which facts to enable or disable would be useful. On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 11:52:12 AM UTC-7, Eric Sorenson wrote: > > I've been thinking about a config file for Facter, which has historically > not been run-time configurable. > > The two problems in front of me that seem applicable are: > > * Sometimes, certain facts are just plain bad to collect and users would > like to prevent them from even being resolved (see FACT-718, FACT-449, ). > * Some facts are not inherently bad but _are_ expensive and/or change > infrequently, so preventing them from being resolved every time would be > beneficial (FACT-348) > > Are there other problems you're running into in this area that you'd like > to see addressed with a "facter.conf"? I'd like to gather all the > requirements and start up a little Puppet RFC based on them. > > --eric0 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/0f42fe6f-1f75-4aff-aa6a-77dd3e17235c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
