I just upgraded my Puppet masters and PuppetDB to latest Puppet 5 releases. All other systems remain Puppet 3.8.6. I've discovered that the masters and puppetdb running puppet-agent 5.3.3 are no longer sending ENC (Foreman) parameters as facts to PuppetDB [1]. What's really odd is one of the parameters, hostgroup, is also put in /etc/facter/facts.d/facts.txt as a static external fact. The value is returned by "facter hostgroup". This value is no longer being sent to PuppetDB and this is only occurring for agents running 5.3.3, my 3.8.6 agents are still sending their hostgroup value as a fact to PuppetDB. I also have custom ruby facts like hostgroup_parent that are based on the value of hostgroup and these are returned by facter but no longer exist in PuppetDB for puppet 5.x clients. This hostgroup_parent is also returned by my ENC as a parameter. It's as if any facts that facter resolves and also exist in ENC as parameters are omitted from uploads to PuppetDB.
I ran puppet with debug on a 5.3.3 client and puppet is picking up the external facts and resolving the values, so something else must be removing the values before being sent to PuppetDB. Is this behavior intentional? I don't want to rewrite all my hostgroup based puppet code that queries from puppetdb if this is some kind of bug. Thanks, - Trey [1]: puppet-agent 5.3.3: # curl --cacert /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem --cert /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/$(hostname -f).pem --key /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/private_keys/$(hostname -f).pem --tlsv1 -X GET https://puppetdb.DOMAIN:8081/pdb/query/v4/facts --data-urlencode 'query=["and",["=", "certname", "puppet0. DOMAIN"],["=","name","hostgroup"]]' [] puppet 3.8.6: # curl --cacert /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/ca.pem --cert /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/certs/$(hostname -f).pem --key /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/private_keys/$(hostname -f).pem --tlsv1 -X GET https://puppetdb. DOMAIN:8081/pdb/query/v4/facts --data-urlencode 'query=["and",["=", "certname", "logs. DOMAIN"],["=","name","hostgroup"]]' [{"certname":"logs.DOMAIN","name":"hostgroup","value":"base/infrastructure","environment":"production"}] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/243ad315-1d91-452d-ae1d-7c47f6670e9f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
