On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Rob Nelson <rnels...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Matthew Gaspar <gat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This probably isn't in scope for this, but the above is my most highly
> sought after goal.
>
Does 'facter -p my_custom_fact' do the trick here?
>
>> Either way, I think a config where you can either specify which facts to
>> enable or disable would be useful.
>>
>
> We manage firewalls and routers as well as server OSes and it would be
> nice to flag which facts shouldn't cause errors on every run on those nodes.
>
Ah yeah, I've heard this a few times as well. But why is it more of a thing
on firewalls/routers?
I would suggest this information should be available locally AND/OR through
> the master/agent mechanism somehow - please don't require yet another
> file{} resource for puppet related settings in every node's manifest.
>
Is the concern here about manifest bloat?
>
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