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Parses JSON encoded facts into Puppet data structures
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Version information

  • 0.0.4 (latest)
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released Jan 19th 2021
This module has been deprecated by its author since Jan 19th 2021.

The reason given was: Obsoleted by core functionality. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/custom_facts.html

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Documentation

binford2k/structured_facts — version 0.0.4 Jan 19th 2021

Introduction

Deprecation notice:

You should not use this module. It's many years obsolete. Puppet has included native structured facts for several years now.

See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/update/custom_facts.html for information on updating your facts.

Structured Facts

This simply parses JSON encoded facts into Puppet data structures and exposes them as global variables. It doesn't provide any functionality on its own. You have to write custom facts for it to parse.

Three sample facts are included:

  • mounts
    • Exposes a hash of mountpoints and filesystem stats
  • ipaddresses
    • Exposes a hash of IP addresses keyed off interface names
  • interfaces_array
    • Just like built-in interfaces fact, but an array instead of a string

Usage

  1. Put this module in your modulepath.
  2. Add a call to decode_structured_facts() near the top of site.pp
  3. Write custom facts that return JSON. Prepend encoded_ to your fact names.

Limitations

  • It does very little error checking.

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License

Copyright (c) 2013 Puppet Labs, info@puppetlabs.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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