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Puppet missing Facter environment variables

Any environment variable prefixed with "FACTER_" is automatically added to the facter collection. I've successfully added a "FACTER_" environment variable it is indeed showing up in the facter -p list, so it should be able to be used by puppet...

The problem, though, is in my .pp file the variable name that should be set to the FACTER_ value is empty (or non existant)

Is there something else I need to do to get FACTER_ variables into puppet variables?

Cheers

Solution

  • You are most likely setting up the system so that the FACTER_ variables are available in interactive shells. This is not sensible if you want your background agent to respect them.

    I can see two direct approaches:

    1. Modify your initscript or its configuration to set the appropriate environment variables.
    2. Forego the approach entirely and use /etc/facter/facts.d instead.

    I would advise towards the latter.