Puppet users - Dec 2012 - Changing Agent Environment Via Custom Fact

It is very likely that I don''t completely understand the order of 
operations as they pertain to agent level variables (such as environment,) 
but I''m not seeing where this should be a problem.  

What I''m Trying To Do:  Set environment on a host by setting a custom
fact.

How I''m trying to achieve this:  I have a custom module that parses ec2
user data value pairs into facts on a host at instance spin.  When I pass 
environment = whatever, I want that environment value to override the 
agent''s puppet.conf environment value.  I''m trying to achieve
this
currently with another custom module:

require ''facter''
if Facter.value(''environment'')
envstring = Facter.value(''environment'')
$environment = envstring
else
envstring = ''''
end

Please let me know if this is just way off base including any way this 
might be possible. 

Thanks In Advance,

Joel

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Why not make puppet.conf.erb and pass it your env-vatiable. But you will 
need to run puppet agent once more to apply catalog from new env.

четверг, 20 декабря 2012 г., 5:16:27 UTC+4 пользователь joel johnston 
написал:
>
> It is very likely that I don''t completely understand the order of 
> operations as they pertain to agent level variables (such as environment,) 
> but I''m not seeing where this should be a problem.  
>
> What I''m Trying To Do:  Set environment on a host by setting a
custom fact.
>
> How I''m trying to achieve this:  I have a custom module that
parses ec2
> user data value pairs into facts on a host at instance spin.  When I pass 
> environment = whatever, I want that environment value to override the 
> agent''s puppet.conf environment value.  I''m trying to
achieve this
> currently with another custom module:
>
> require ''facter''
> if Facter.value(''environment'')
> envstring = Facter.value(''environment'')
> $environment = envstring
> else
> envstring = ''''
> end
>
> Please let me know if this is just way off base including any way this 
> might be possible. 
>
> Thanks In Advance,
>
> Joel
>
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