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? > > -- > > Rob Nelson > [email protected] > > -- > 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/CAC76iT-eEdup-%3DM2jJH-8-_GFj4EywQjX%2BihaS%2BLhgC8_9di_g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAC76iT-eEdup-%3DM2jJH-8-_GFj4EywQjX%2BihaS%2BLhgC8_9di_g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kylo Ginsberg | [email protected] | irc: kylo | twitter: @kylog -- 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/CALsUZFF9Zq3rC%3DsHJOudhnc_LvctdiNw%2BXjjpvrr5kdTFZfTaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
