Every now and then a need to use the content of a file as a variable on an agent node arises. Here's one way to do it with the help of a custom fact. First create a custom fact on the puppet server: You can confine this to restrict it to be available only on […]
Writing static facts is fairly easy even with a low level of Ruby skills. Below is an example of a fact that returns true or false depending on whether the node has a /boot partition: As you can see above the required information was already inside the "mountpoints" fact of Facter. Using the fact is […]
