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how to get external ip address of agent in puppet template

In puppet, the core fact ipaddress surely provides me with the agents private ipaddress.

Is there also a shortcut to retrieve the external ip address in an erb-template?

I guess I may have to write a small function for it.

Solution

  • The ipaddress fact just "does an ifconfig and returns the first non 127.0.0.0/8 subnetted IP it finds". The code is here. There are also facts available for the specific interfaces (ipaddress_eth0 etc). You may need to write a custom fact as you say, and it's very easy to do so. (Documentation here).

    All facts are available inside an ERB template as:

    <%= @ipaddress %>

    etc.