December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 37m
English
book
Pro Puppet, Second Edition
by Spencer Krum, William Van Hevelingen, Ben Kero, James Turnbull, Jeffery McCune
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CHAPTER 10
Extending Facter and Puppet
Among the most powerful features of Puppet are its flexibility and extensibility. In addition to the existing facts, resource types, providers, and functions, you can quickly and easily add custom code specific to your environment or to meet a particular need.
In the first part of this chapter we’re going to examine how to add your own custom facts. Adding custom facts is highly useful for gathering and making use of information specific to your environment. Indeed, we’ve used Facter extensively in this book to provide information about our hosts, applications, and services, and you’ve seen the array of ...