Puppet users - Apr 2007 - testing with fake facts

Hello

Is it possible to make up your own facts with which to test your  
manifests?

Actually, what I''m trying to do is create a system that will generate  
the correct set of configuration files for some applications running  
on Windows. I''m hoping that in time puppet will be ported to windows,  
but in the mean time I''d like the task of configurations being  
generated being handled by puppet. Then these configs can be manually  
installed on the machines, for now.

So what I''d like to do is run puppetd with some ''fake
facts'',
initially just the hostname of each of the windows servers, and have  
it create a bunch of config files in a directory.

Is this possible?

Thanks very much
Jesse




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On Apr 2, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Jesse Reynolds wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to make up your own facts with which to test your  
> manifests?
>
> Actually, what I''m trying to do is create a system that will  
> generate the correct set of configuration files for some  
> applications running on Windows. I''m hoping that in time puppet  
> will be ported to windows, but in the mean time I''d like the task
> of configurations being generated being handled by puppet. Then  
> these configs can be manually installed on the machines, for now.
>
> So what I''d like to do is run puppetd with some ''fake
facts'',
> initially just the hostname of each of the windows servers, and  
> have it create a bunch of config files in a directory.
>
> Is this possible?
If you''re comfortable writing an XMLRPC client (or even just writing  
a bit of Ruby -- you can use existing Puppet code for nearly  
everything), it''d be pretty easy.

Just create a subclass of the ''master'' client, at
lib/puppet/network/
client/master.rb, and override the ''facts''  class method,
having it
return the facts you want to use instead of those returned by  
Facter.  Then make a duplicate of the ''puppetd'' script (or
modify the
original) to use this subclass, instead of the parent class.

There''s no way to do this without writing a bit of code, though.

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