On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Rob Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Matthew Gaspar <[email protected]> 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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