On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dan Bode <d...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alan Barrett <a...@cequrux.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Ohad Levy wrote:
>>> > > And the absolute killer: as far as I know, external node classifiers
>>> > > are global, not per environment.  It doesn't even get to know which
>>> > > environment the node requested, so it is *impossible* for it to give
>>> > > back the correct information to Puppet.
>>> > >
>>> > thats not correct (at least in the case of http://theforeman.org).
>>>
>>> Really?  Did feature #2834 get implemented while I wasn't paying
>>> attention?
>>>
>>> there is a workaround for it (although your feature is valid and should
>> be implemented) . The external classifier can access client facts from the
>> $vardir/yaml/facts. Ohad said it's possible, not that its pretty ;)
>>
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> Assuming the client has puppeted at least once against that server. This
> won't work for bootstrapping a client though will it?
>

it does, the facts yaml file is created before the external node classifier
is called ;)


>
> I'd love it if facts were available to the external node classifier. I'm
> thinking of a flow like:
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> * new client runs puppet, has no facts
> * external node classifier supplies a bootstrap environment with bootstrap
> facts
> * client submits evaluated facts to external node classifier again, it can
> now make decisions with full data about the client.
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