Puppet users - Dec 2013 - puppetdb missing environment fact

Hi,

I''m seeing something rather strange with puppetdb (1.5.2) in regards to
the
environment fact.

On my puppetdb host:

If I run the following query:

curl -G ''http://localhost:8080/v3/facts'' --data-urlencode
''query=["=",
"name", "environment"]''

I would expect to receive the environment fact for every node that I''m 
managing with puppet (>500).

However, that query only returns 11 nodes.  These 11 nodes are running 
puppet 2.7.22.

I am in the process of upgrading puppet to 3.3.2 from 2.7.22.

All of the nodes running 3.3.2 are missing the environment fact from 
puppetdb.  All the 2.7.22 nodes have the environment fact stored.

Can anyone think of a reason why the environment fact is missing for my 
3.3.2 nodes?

J

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''environment'' is not a Fact:

laptop:~$ sudo facter -p environment
laptop:~$ 

It is a configuration parameter of Puppet. I''m not sure why older 2.7
hosts
would be reporting it as a Fact to PuppetDB, unless in 2.7 all top scope 
variables were sent this way.

You could use a Fact to pull out what environment an Agent *would* run with 
using this Fact code:

#Get the configured environment out of puppet.conf
begin
    puppet_environment = ''''

    File.open(''/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'').each do |line|
        if line =~ /^\s*environment\s*=\s*(\S+)/
            puppet_environment = $1
        end
    end

    Facter.add(:puppet_environment) do
        setcode do
            puppet_environment
        end
    end
rescue
    Facter.warn("puppet_environment.rb failed: #{$!}")
end


On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:04:53 AM UTC, james.e...@fasthosts.com 
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I''m seeing something rather strange with puppetdb (1.5.2) in
regards to
> the environment fact.
>
> On my puppetdb host:
>
> If I run the following query:
>
> curl -G ''http://localhost:8080/v3/facts'' --data-urlencode
''query=["=",
> "name", "environment"]''
>
> I would expect to receive the environment fact for every node that
I''m
> managing with puppet (>500).
>
> However, that query only returns 11 nodes.  These 11 nodes are running 
> puppet 2.7.22.
>
> I am in the process of upgrading puppet to 3.3.2 from 2.7.22.
>
> All of the nodes running 3.3.2 are missing the environment fact from 
> puppetdb.  All the 2.7.22 nodes have the environment fact stored.
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why the environment fact is missing for my 
> 3.3.2 nodes?
>
> J
>
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Thanks Luke. 

I just found a bug report describing that this behaviour has changed in 3.x 
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17692

For me, being able to determine the agent environment is very useful.
We use git for the Puppet manifests and each branch is an environment.
So we''ll create new branches to test and deploy new features.
Then when it''s ready to go live to all nodes, we''ll merge that
branch back
into master and remove the feature branch.
I rely on being able to query puppetdb or puppet-dashboard to find out 
which nodes are using environment X, so I can safely remove a branch once 
there are no nodes using it.

We also manage Puppet with Puppet and set the environment in puppet.conf 
based on the current environment.  This does still work as the environment 
is available in the manifests.

I also found the following code (at 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/AM1o4Khloto) for 
turning environment into a fact.
Including it here in case it''s useful to others.

require ''puppet''

Facter.add(''environment'') do
  setcode do
    Puppet[:environment]
  end
end


J

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