Doh! The /etc/facter/facts.d/pod_prefix.txt file goes on the nodes NOT the
puppet master. And it works!
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Russell Cecala <red.cricket.b...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> OK I tried looking into the facter-dot-d way of setting a custom fact, but
> it does not seem suitable for what I am trying to do.
> I want some nodes to report the fact pod_prefix as 'vii-osc4' and I will
> want other nodes to report pod_prefix as 'ix-xyz' so that my hiera.yaml
> hierachy of ...
>
> root@svl-osc4-ppt-001 ~]# cat /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml
>
> ---
>
> :backends:
>
> - yaml
>
> :hierarchy:
>
> - "%{::pod_prefix}"
>
> - defaults
>
> - "%{clientcert}"
>
> - "%{environment}"
>
> - global
>
>
> :yaml:
>
> # datadir is empty here, so hiera uses its defaults:
>
> # - /var/lib/hiera on *nix
>
> # - %CommonAppData%\PuppetLabs\hiera\var on Windows
>
> # When specifying a datadir, make sure the directory exists.
>
> :datadir:
> Will allow nodes with pod_prefix of vii-osc4 to get their class parameters
> from the /var/lib/hiera/vii-osc4.yaml file while node that have pod_prefix
> set to 'ix-xyz' will get their class parameters from from
> /var/lib/hiera/ix-xyz.yaml ... I do not see how putting this file ...
>
> # pwd
>
> /etc/facter/facts.d
>
> # cat pod_prefix.txt
>
> pod_prefix=vii-osc4
> ... on my puppet master will achieve this.
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Russell Cecala <
> red.cricket.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gotcha! Thanks
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Thomas Müller <tho...@chaschperli.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you saying that my test is no good because it is using the
>>>> environment from the shell?
>>>>
>>> yes systemd does not send provide /etc/profile.d environment to its
>>> services.
>>>
>>> just don't use FACTER_ env variables. Use facter-dot-d or a custom fact
>>> in a puppet module.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - Thomas
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