I also like to embed facts with bash logic using bash startup files in /etc/profile.d/puppet.sh
The puppet labs FAQ has a write up on it. Can I access environmental variables with Facter? Not directly no but Facter has a special types of facts that can be set from environment variables. Any environment variable with a prefix of FACTER<http://puppetlabs.com/projects/facter> will be taken by Facter and converted into a fact, for example: $ FACTER_FOO="bar" $ export FACTER_FOO $ facter | grep 'foo' foo => bar The value of the FACTER_FOO environmental variable would now be available in your Puppet manifests as $foo with a value of ‘bar’. -Tom Thomas A. McGonagle t...@dataero.com Google Voice: 617-229-5185 On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Pete Emerson <pemer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 9, 9:04 am, Pete Emerson <pemer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I see the instructions for creating custom facter recipes here: > > > > http://projects.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Adding_Facts > > > > and in this thread, James Turnbull suggests that Facter might some day > > support other languages besides ruby: > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/8c12... > > > > He writes: > > > Agreed. That'd be a useful feature and if we'd probably do it like > > > Nagios plug-ins do - doesn't matter what the language is as long as > they > > > output data that the Facter API can parse into facts - Perl, Python, C, > > > Rexx (*coughs*), etc. > > > > Has such a feature been released in the latest versions of facter / > puppet ? > > > > I'm experimenting with puppet with no puppetmaster, but need to add > > facts that my puppet_node_classifier usually provides. I assume using > > facter is the way to go (I have not played with facter yet). Is there > > an alternate solution for getting my own facts into a puppet node > > without a puppetmaster? > > > > Pete > > Okay, I think I got it. Pretty exciting, especially given I don't know > ruby at all. Comments appreciated, for sure, as I'm not positive that > I might be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. > > I've made a fact that loads results from a perl script. > > 1) The sample perl script gives output just like a puppet node > classifier would using YAML > 2) The ruby parses the output of the perl script and generates facts. > > ################### /usr/local/bin/facter.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > print <<END > --- > parameters: > dongle: "special_dongle_value" > END > > ################### /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/classifier.rb > > require "yaml" > > yaml_obj = YAML::load(%x{/usr/local/bin/facter.pl}) > yaml_obj['parameters'].each { |key, value| > Facter.add(key) do > setcode do > value > end > end > } > > #################### Manual run > > # export FACTERLIB=/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter ; facter | grep dongle > dongle => special_dongle_value > > #################### /etc/puppet/puppet.conf additions > pluginsync = true > factpath = $vardir/lib/facter > > > #################### test.pp > > exec { "dongle": > command => "/bin/echo '$dongle' > /tmp/dongle.txt" > } > > ###################### Puppet run > > # puppet -v test.pp > info: Loading facts in classifier > info: Applying configuration version '1270834249' > notice: //Exec[dongle]/returns: executed successfully > # cat /tmp/dongle.txt > special_dongle_value > > ############################################## > > Pete > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
