In the earlier chapters, we explored various facts and functions that Puppet provides out-of-the-box. You may recall that, in Chapter 3, My First Puppet Module, we created a variable called $fact_list (line 3 in the webapp class), and we used it to store values of facts $::ipaddress_eth1 and $::uptime. These two facts are built into Puppet. Once we declared the $fact_list variable, we created a file resource with the content attribute that used the template function (line 7 in the webapp class) to populate the content of the file. The template function is a commonly used function that comes bundled with Puppet.
When you start using Puppet on a regular basis, you soon realize that the built-in facts and functions may ...
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