On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Alexandre Fouché <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using the cloud provisioner to bootstrap some ec2 nodes, and these
> clients are signed using a randomly generated certname, which is put in
> /etc/puppet.conf at the bootstrap time (eg certname =
> d7bcd693-73fd-495f-0876-ff91ea11111e).
>
> But my puppet code repo also manages the puppet.conf file, so the file will
> be overwritten on the client at the first puppet run. Nevertheless, i should
> not lose what was the original certname for this client, because i need to
> insert it in the puppet.conf.erb that will be pushed to this client,
> otherwise the puppetmaster will not recognize and allow this client anymore.
>
> I ran "facter" on the client, and the certname does not appear. I ran
> "puppet --genconfig |grep certname" and the certname does not appear either.
> I can not check the cert name in /var/lib/puppet/ssl/certs because the cert
> will appear after first puppet run.
>
> Is there a way to to know what certname is using a puppet client, and be
> able to use it in erb templates, or am using puppet and the cloud
> provisioner in a wrong way ?
>

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/faq.html#are-there-variables-available-other-than-those-provided-by-facter

$clientcert — Provided by the agent; contains the agent node’s certname.
Added in Puppet 2.6.0.





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