On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:20:53 PM UTC-6, Neil wrote: > > Hello > > I think the advantages of fact based implementation are you can use it in > hiera hieracy, query it in puppeydb etc > Facts do not provide an advantage over ordinary top-scope variables with respect to interpolation in Hiera <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/variables.html#passing-variables-to-hiera>. They do get recorded in puppetdb, but in a case like this, so too do all the underlying facts from which they are derived. The PuppetDB query API supports a regex match operator which could be used against the 'ipaddress' fact in this particular case, so at best the custom fact gets you a small convenience in your queries (which, however, are probably machine-generated anyway, so any such convenience is mostly wasted). I'm not sure what the "etc." could be.
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