You need your custom fact script in:
<module>/lib/facter/<script>
On 29/06/2012, at 7:37, "llow...@oreillyauto.com" <llow...@oreillyauto.com>
wrote:
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> On Thursday, June 28, 2012 2:04:09 PM UTC-5, R.I. Pienaar wrote:
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> I would make facts on the nodes for these. Let say $role and $subrole
> and then just use those in your hierarchy with %{role} and %{subrole}
> thus allowing you to set variable for all those machines there.
>
> That's simple enough, and the docs [1] for creating a custom fact are mostly
> straightforward.
>
> The one thing I am unclear on, in the "plugins in modules" [2] document, it
> says that if you are going to put your custom stuff in a module (such as in
> their example, named 'custom') it says to follow the standard layout, and
> that you have to have a manifests/init.pp.
>
You need your custom fact script in:
<module>/lib/facter/<script>
> If all that is actually in the thing is lib/facter/myfact.rb, what do I put
> in the manifests/init.pp ? Is it enough for it to exist but be empty?
>
You would normally put your module definitions in init.pp but you should have
the following as a minimum:
class <module name> {
}
> The document was somewhat unclear on this, or I missed it when reading.
>
> [1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html
> [2] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/plugins_in_modules.html
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