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Tasks that inspect the value of system facts

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Version information

  • 2.0.1 (latest)
  • 2.0.0 (deleted)
  • 1.3.1
  • 1.3.0
  • 1.2.0
  • 1.1.0
  • 1.0.0
  • 0.9.0
  • 0.8.0
  • 0.7.0
  • 0.6.0
  • 0.5.0
  • 0.4.1
  • 0.4.0
  • 0.3.1
  • 0.3.0
  • 0.2.1
  • 0.2.0
  • 0.1.5
  • 0.1.4
  • 0.1.3
released Apr 13th 2018
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x
  • Puppet >= 5.1.0 < 6.0.0
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Tasks:
  • facter_task

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  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'puppetlabs-facter_task', '0.3.0'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add puppetlabs-facter_task
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install puppetlabs-facter_task --version 0.3.0

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Documentation

puppetlabs/facter_task — version 0.3.0 Apr 13th 2018

facter_task

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Requirements
  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  4. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
  5. Getting help - Some Helpful commands

Description

This module provides the facter_task task. This task allows you to discover facts about remote machines in your infrastructure.

Requirements

This module is compatible with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Bolt.

  • To run tasks with Puppet Enterprise, PE 2017.3 or later must be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands. Machines receiving task requests must be Puppet agents.

  • To run tasks with Puppet Bolt, Bolt 0.5 or later must be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands. Machines receiving task requests must have SSH or WinRM services enabled.

Usage

To run a facter_task task, use the task command, specifying the fact you want to retrieve.

  • With PE on the command line, run puppet task run facter_task fact=<FACT>.
  • With Bolt on the command line, run bolt task run facter_task fact=<FACT>.

For example, to check the operating system family on a machine, run:

  • With PE, run puppet task run facter_task fact=osfamily --nodes neptune
  • With Bolt, run bolt task run facter_task fact=osfamily --nodes neptune --modulepath ~/modules

You can also run tasks in the PE console. See PE task documentation for complete information.

Reference

To view the available actions and parameters, on the command line, run puppet task show facter_task or see the facter_task module page on the Forge.

For a complete list of facts that are supported, see the Puppet core facts documentation.

Getting Help

To display help for the facter_task task, run puppet task show facter_task

To show help for the task CLI, run puppet task run --help or bolt task run --help