Variables, facts, and scopes
When writing our manifests, we can set and use variables; they help us in organizing which resources we want to apply, how they are parameterized, and how they change according to our logic, infrastructure, and needs.
They may have different sources:
- Facter (variables, called facts, automatically generated on the Puppet client)
- User-defined variables in Puppet code (variables defined using Puppet DSL)
- User-defined variables from an ENC
- User-defined variables on Hiera
- Puppet's built-in variables
System's facts
When we install Puppet on a system, the facter package is installed as a dependency. Facter is executed on the client each time Puppet is run and it collects a large set of key/value pairs that reflect many system's properties. ...
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