Facts are loaded, and distributed from the master, before the catalog compilation step. See https://docs.puppet.com/facter/3.3/custom_facts.html#external-facts. Rather than distributing the json files as a File resource, you could add an executable fact to a module and the fact could communicate with the CMDB to gather the correct fact information.
However, I think what you really want is an External Node Classifier ( https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.3/nodes_external.html). Similar to a function, it runs on the master, but unlike functions it happens before catalog compilation, so the hash of key/values it returns can be used during catalog compilation. That seems like the perfect fit for your use case, except ENCs need to return yaml, not json. Rob Nelson rnels...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 5:13 AM, buoyant_puppy <fred.oris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 5:59:51 PM UTC+1, R.I. Pienaar wrote: >> >> >> All functions like foo() run on the master during compile. It's a multi >> phase process, the only way a node can influence the compile time is >> using facts. >> >> You could integrate your CMDB with puppet using a hiera data function >> that could exist as a tier in your hierarchy >> > > Thanks, that makes sense now. I'm looking into hiera, but I think I have > another alternative as well. If I put my json files in the facter/facts.d > directory (on the agent), it will be automatically loaded. > The only somewhat minor downside is that facter runs first, so the data it > fetches will only be available in the next puppet run. > > I'm not sure if that's better or worse than the hiera option as I didn't > get hiera working yet. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/puppet-users/1bbf939a-75a8-49a7-9b11-8e073b945335%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/1bbf939a-75a8-49a7-9b11-8e073b945335%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAC76iT9zbxyOtdSr0EZ4Tu7Fnbxtzje-pz64K7TtSe4UzdE5NQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
