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 […]
When a resource is managed by Puppet it is typically managed fully, or not at all. Exceptions to this rule, such as the "replace" parameter in the File resource, are rare. However, sometimes you end up having to change the properties of a resource outside of Puppet without making Puppet overwrite those changes on the […]
