On Aug 24, 8:43 pm, newguy <aimanparv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
> I have a custom fact envt, it was working fine but now I have to make
> some changes in it;
> puppet client's hostname is of the type 1234qa-abc-de.local where 1234
> can be any thing of any length.My custom fact should contain qa, ie I
> want to check in the first part(before the first -) of the hostname
> if there exists a pattern/word qa and if it exists then my custom
> fact
> for envt should be qa.
>
> My old envt.rb code is:
>
> require 'facter'
> Facter.add("envt") do
> setcode do
> %x{hostname -s|cut -c 1-2}.chomp
> end
> end
>
> I am not good with regex/ patterns please help me out guys.
Tangential issue: why are you doing this with a custom fact? The fact
value depends entirely the node's hostname, which is already exposed
to Puppet as a the standard fact $hostname. You can and should set
envt on the master based on the $hostname fact. I offer examples
below.
Before the examples, however, I observe that your description of the
needed fact value does not match the old fact code. The old fact
returns the first two characters of the hostname regardless of what
they are, so are you sure that what you now want isn't the last two
preceding the first hyphen?
The old fact could have been implemented via this one-liner at the top
level of your site.pp:
$envt = regsubst($hostname, '^(.{2}).*', '\1')
It would no longer be a fact per se if you did it that way, but the
manifests that use it would be unable to distinguish. I'm going to
suggest that you use that approach to implement the revised version of
your fact:
$envt = regsubst($hostname, '^[^-]*([^-]{2})-.*', '\1')
That's more general than what you actually asked for, in that it will
give you the two characters preceding the first dash in the hostname,
whatever they may be (that is, even if they aren't "qa"). In English,
it reads something like
() At the beginning of the string (^),
() zero or more characters that are not hyphens ([^-]*), followed by
() exactly two characters that are not hyphens, as a captured group
(([^-]{2})), followed by
() a hyphen (-), followed by
() anything (.*)
The function uses as its result the first (and only) captured group
(\1). If the hostname does not contain at least one hyphen or if
there are fewer than two characters in it before the first hyphen then
that regex won't match it. In that case the value assigned to $envt
should be an empty string.
Note that two switch from a custom fact to an ordinary global variable
as I suggest, you probably will need to clear the custom fact code
from your nodes. You can do that by removing its .rb file, but if you
are using pluginsync then you might find it easier to simply
synchronize a version of the .rb that is empty.
If you must do it as a custom fact, then this ought to work:
require 'facter'
Facter.add("envt") do
setcode do
%x{hostname}.sub(/^[^-]*([^-]{2})-.*/m, '\1')
end
end
But I really don't see the point of making things so complicated.
John
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