Use export FACTER_myfactname=overridevalue, e.g. export FACTER_countrycode=USA puppet agent -t This is useful when a fact is normally set during the initial puppet run, but the node catalog won’t compile until the fact is already set on the node (i.e. if you can’t…
I went along to the first Sydney Puppet User Group meetup for 2016. Below are some notes. Masterless Puppet Richard Tomkinson - Cloudten Industries "Using AWS Buckets and IAM roles" Very interesting talk. Went through a brief case study, outlining the things which worked well, the challenges and…
Extra reading Puppet type reference https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html * very valuable lookup for type information Puppet Visual Index https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_visual_index.html * great examples of code syntax Puppet On The edge http://puppet-on-the-edge.blogspot.be * good for bleeding-edge information…
Create a new module Either create directory tree modules directory structure modules - foo-module |\- manifests | \-init.pp | |-class2.pp |\-examples | \-init.pp |\-files |\-templates \-rspec The modules can then be declared using include foo-module * Note this would need to contain a class called "foo-module" include foo-module::class2.…
Notes from the Puppet Practitioner training course Refresher - a puppet run 1. Puppet Agent will run a facter collection 2. Puppet Agent will request a catalog from the master 3. Puppet Master will generate a catalog using the code on the master 4. Puppet Master will send the catalog…