Comments on: RightScale facts

By: Boom Bah

Boom Bah — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:01:51 +0000

Ah, if it’s merely cosmetic (seems to be), then all is well.

By: rip

rip — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:40:48 +0000

The builtin facts from facter does the REST call too.

The dynamic facts not showing up when ran with ‘facter foo’ is expected behavior at present and something that version 2 of Facter would probably solve.

By: Boom Bah

Boom Bah — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:00:38 +0000

I recently added custom facts that I read from a REST call. Your example is similar that it reads from a file.

However, `facter my_newfact` won’t work. I assume the facts are registered by name somehow, however I do not use a string; it is generated by code. If you ran, say, `facter ec2_ramdisk_id`, does it work?

Thanks,

By: Chris Read

Chris Read — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:34:36 +0000

I’ve finally had some time to look at this in detail. All the info listed there is actually available via EC2 Meta-Data API (http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2009-08-15/UserGuide/AESDG-chapter-instancedata.html)

I’ll see if I can knock up a plugin to do this on machines that don’t have the RightScale raw files…

By: rip

rip — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:31:35 +0000

Have updated the code and sample output, thanks again

By: rip

rip — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:49:04 +0000

Hmm, well spotted, I didn’t use them from puppet yet, I used them as selectors for mcollective.

I’ll adjust the fact so replace – with _

By: ch

ch — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:47:02 +0000

Can these facts be accessed from puppet? I thought dashes weren’t valid in variable names.