Puppet-Classifier: /etc/facts.txt

Description

This classifier is based upon the etc_facts.rb plugin written by R.I.Pienaar. The classifier looks for the classes and parameters facts set by the etc_facts.rb script. The script parses the classes fact split by "," and assigns the corresponding class to the node. The script then looks for parameter and then breaks it down into a key and a value delimited by ":". These parameters are used in puppet manifests as local variables for configuration overrides.

/etc/facts.txt:

parameters=tomcatMem:6g,permGen:512M,subCollective:qcollective:mcollective
classes=ntp,tomcat

Output:

--- 
  parameters: 
    permGen: 512M
    tomcatMem: 6g
    subCollective: "qcollective,mcollective"
  classes: 
    - tomcat
    - ntp::server
  environment: production

Requirements

You have to have the etc_facts.rb facter plugin installed on all of your mcollective / puppet nodes.

Puppet installation

You can follow the instructions to install a external nodes script. You will modify the line to point to the puppet-etcfacts.rb script

Changes?

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2011/04/01 - First revision

Contact?

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Jeremy Carroll [email protected] @jeremy_carroll