On 11/04/18 18:21, jcbollinger wrote:
I'm writing a module for Puppet self-management, or at least I think I
am. I was surprised to not find very much along those lines on the
Forge, and maybe I should take that as a bad sign, but I want to explore
it at least a little bit. Maybe I just didn't find the right search
terms -- searching there for "puppet" is not very useful.
Anyway, I've run into a snag with a threshold issue: how to find the
config file(s) to manage in the first place. I know where Puppet stores
its config files by default, for various versions of Puppet and for
various operational contexts, but with the existence of the --confdir
option that can be specified on a per-run basis, it is not safe to
assume that the config files that informed the current Puppet run is in
the default location (and those are the ones I want to manage). In any
case, I'm lazy, so I'd rather get Puppet to tell me what it already
knows than try to recompute it.
But there does not seem to be a standard fact that communicates this
information (at least, 'puppet facts' does not print one), and I'm not
seeing any appealing ways to extract the necessary information from a
custom fact's runtime context. I do see at least one nasty, tricksome,
system-dependent way, but I'm more likely to chuck the whole idea than
go there. Am I missing some clean way to write a custom fact for this
purpose? Or does someone have an alternative to suggest?
Have you read the documentation regarding $settings ?
https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/lang_facts_and_builtin_vars.html#puppet-master-variables
- henrik
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