Christophe, Let me ask a question: what extra information is Ohai providing (that Facter does not currently) that you would be using in your manifests/cookbooks? Usually people utilize similar bits of Facter-provided information (operatingsystem, release version, ipaddress, interfaces, domain, hostname, fqdn, etc...) but the other information they want to utilize is fairly specialized to their organization (role, environment, location, group, etc...). In the latter case, you would need to create custom facts to define those anyway. I AM genuinely interested in the information that Ohai is providing (that Facter is not) that you find useful - we're definitely open to providing more useful information.
As for a fact repository, facts are provided inside modules in our Module Forge (forge.puppetlabs.com) inside the lib/facter directory of Modules. Many modules contain facts, and I encourage you to check there for more information :) Cheers! On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Christophe L <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > We are currently evaluating Puppet and Chef on several criteria and we > have found a big difference between the amount of information > retrieved by Facter in Puppet and the amount of information retrieved > by Ohai in Chef for a same virtual machine. > > There is about 2000 lines in the JSON file provided by Chef when there > is only 72 lines in the YAML file provided by Puppet. > > For Chef, it is a formatted JSON so there is a certain amount of lines > because of the json hierarchy and there is too a lot of "Not > Specified" data meaning no useful data, but even comparing the raw > useful data, there's still a big difference. > > We would like to know if there are plugins / modules for Facter that > are freely available and would permit to fill the gap between Puppet > and Chef on this aspect. > > Could you please give us some links on facts that are not included in > facter and would permit to retrieve more information on the nodes ? > > Unless we miss some configuration or documentation from puppetlabs > which would permit to extract more facts from nodes ? > > Thanks in advance for your help > > Best regards, > Christophe > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- Gary Larizza Professional Services Engineer Puppet Labs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
