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I have written a custom puppet fact using a ruby script. It is very simple - it just adds a string to a fact. However I have written a module but it appears to me that the custom fact has been applied to all my machines without me specifying any node definitions. When I run a puppet agent --test --noop, I see the custom fact appear in /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter. Info: Loading facts in

hello, Till now hiera-puppet was the only way I know that allowed hiera data to be loaded from inside a module. The problem with this was that it was still subject to the site specific hierarchy which means a module author had a pretty hard time to store his data in a proper way in his module thus perpetuating the use of the params classes pattern. Now that Puppet 3 is out and it''s gem

Hello, I am currently trying to get the puppetdb dashboard and the puppet dashboard working on the same system. Puppet dashboard is working great but after "successfully" installing puppetdb following puppet''s opensource instructions the puppetdb dashboard just doesn''t seem to exist (according to some sites I should be able to get to it by going to

Hi all, To start, using puppet 0.25.5 on Debian Lenny with Ruby 1.8.7.72-3lenny1. I''m giving ruby a shot and am trying to build my own types for several applications and modify available types found on the ''net for our usage. However, I keep running into problems with the default provider it selects. Is there a document somewhere that describes how the default provider is

How do I initiate a certificate request without going into non-daemon mode ? According to "Pro Puppet" book, so far the only way I know that can trigger a certficate request with puppet master is like this puppet agent --server=puppetmaster.test.com --no-daemonize --verbose but doing so will break my intention of automation I need to create a puppet client package. A control-C is

Hello lovelies, Our team is deliberating a few different options for the hierification of our modules; and wanted to poll the collective genius before making our decision. As we all know, there are certain attributes of a package which are, by default, consistent on an OS... say, the name of a package..... class foobar { include foobar::params $package = $foobar::params::package Package

Hi all, I''ve been looking at a potential problem, as documented here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19241 To do with a leak within the KahaDB persistence layer of ActiveMQ. Specifically, there are reports of the db.data file growing unbounded: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-3956 I''m hoping to find out information from other PuppetDB users to see if this is

Hey, The rails ORM is great... But there is no support for enheritance except for the singletable enheritance. So we''ve come up with the idea: Create a piece of code that allows the programmer to encapsulate / inherit objects in a easy way. One example of it''s practical use. Imagine a system where you have to store clients, employees and partners. They are all real