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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes
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DevOps: Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes

by Thomas Uphill, John Arundel, Neependra Khare, Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting information about the environment

Often in a Puppet manifest, you need to know some local information about the machine you're on. Facter is the tool that accompanies Puppet to provide a standard way of getting information (facts) from the environment about things such as these:

  • Operating system
  • Memory size
  • Architecture
  • Processor count

To see a complete list of the facts available on your system, run:

$ sudo facter
architecture => amd64
augeasversion => 0.10.0
domain => compute-1.internal
ec2_ami_id => ami-137bcf7a
ec2_ami_launch_index => 0

Note

While it can be handy to get this information from the command line, the real power of Facter lies in being able to access these facts in your Puppet manifests.

Some modules define their own facts; to ...

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