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A Puppet module for managing Facter related configuration (facter.conf)
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Version information

  • 1.2.0 (latest)
  • 1.1.0
  • 1.0.0
released Mar 3rd 2024
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2021.7.x
  • Puppet >= 7.24 < 9.0.0
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Tasks:
  • clear_facter_cache_data
  • delete_facter_conf

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mod 'jortencio-facter_conf', '1.2.0'
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puppet module install jortencio-facter_conf --version 1.2.0

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Documentation

jortencio/facter_conf — version 1.2.0 Mar 3rd 2024

facter_conf

A Puppet module that is used to configure facter.conf.

For more information, please refer to Configuring Facter with facter.conf

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup
  3. Usage
  4. Limitations
  5. Development

Description

facter_conf is a module for easily configuring Facter to set how it interacts with a system, configure fact caching, fact groups and facts/fact groups to block.

Setup

Beginning with facter_conf

By default, facter_conf will simply create an empty facter.conf file.

include facter_conf

Usage

facter_conf supports the use of Hiera data for setting parameters. Please refer to REFERENCE for a list of configurable parameters.

Configure fact caching

---
facter_conf::facts_ttls:
  - timezone: '30 days'
  - os: '1 hour'

Configure fact caching for a custom fact group

---
facter_conf::facts_ttls:
  - custom_fact_group: '30 days'
facter_conf::fact_groups:
  - name: 'custom_fact_group'
    facts:
      - 'os.name'
      - 'ec2_metadata'

Configuring all sections of facter.conf

facter_conf::facts_blocklist: 
  - 'file system'
  - 'EC2' 
  - 'os.architecture'
facter_conf::facts_ttls:
  - timezone: '30 days'
  - os: '30 days'
facter_conf::global_external_dir:
  - 'path1'
  - 'path2'
facter_conf::global_custom_dir:
  - 'custom/path'
facter_conf::global_no_external_facts: false
facter_conf::global_no_custom_facts: false
facter_conf::global_no_ruby: false
facter_conf::cli_debug: false
facter_conf::cli_trace: true
facter_conf::cli_verbose: false
facter_conf::cli_log_level: 'warn'
facter_conf::fact_groups:
  - name: 'custom_fact_group'
    facts:
      - 'os.name'
      - 'ssh'

The same configuration can be done as a class declaration as follows:

  class { 'facter_conf':
    facts_blocklist          => ['file system', 'EC2', 'os.architecture'],
    facts_ttls               => [
      { 'timezone' => '30 days' },
      { 'os' => '30 days' },
    ],
    global_external_dir      => ['path1', 'path2'],
    global_custom_dir        => ['custom/path'],
    global_no_external_facts => false,
    global_no_custom_facts   => false,
    global_no_ruby           => false,
    cli_debug                => false,
    cli_trace                => true,
    cli_verbose              => false,
    cli_log_level            => 'warn',
    fact_groups              => [
      {
        name  => 'custom-group-name',
        facts => ['os.name','ssh'],
      }
    ],
  }

Limitations

This module has only been tested with Facter versions > 4.3.1

Development

If you would like to contribute with the development of this module, please feel free to log development changes in the issues register for this project