let me take a look

it shouldn't, it's documented

@vchepkov any idea how to make sure fact file creates without containing BOM?

not a windows person, sorry

google shows this https://www.hesk.com/knowledgebase/index.php?article=87

i can do it manually but not sure how to modify my puppet installation script to create facts without containing BOM and encoding with UTF8

hmm and how does it create a fact?

Hello Community, For a while , I can’t get my regex to match in an ‘Exec’. In bulk, we would like to use sed to replace from :

my $version_re = qr/(\d+\.?\d)/;

to :

my $version_re = qr/(\d+\.?\d+)/;

I am using that piece of code on puppet. but no success. Does anyone have experience with puppet regexes that could give me a boost? This is the output of the dpkg-query that I am using on the

onlyif

part.

$ dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}' foo-common
244.rla20.04+1

here the code:

$foo_common_ver = '^244\.rla20\.04\+1$'
exec { 'replace_foo_ctl':
  command     => "sed -i 's|my \$version_re = qr/(\\d+\\.?\\d)/;|my \$version_re = qr/(\\d+\\.?\\d+)/;|g' /usr/bin/foo_ctl",
  onlyif      => "dpkg-query -W -f='\${Version}' foo-common | grep -Eq '$foo_common_ver' ",
  path        => '/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin',
  refreshonly => true,
 }

and my sed seems working here:

# echo "my \$version_re = qr/(\d+\.?\d)/;" | sed -e 's|my \$version_re = qr/(\\d+\\.?\\d)/;|my \$version_re = qr/(\\d+\\.?\\d+)/;|g'
my $version_re = qr/(\d+\.?\d+)/;

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it’s historical. We asked to do it via puppet.

Could you use

file_line

instead of sed? I have a suspicion that you're running into some problems with escaping of control characters from all of the nested interpolations, and

file_line

would avoid that, though I certainly agree that it still isn't a great permanent fix

The better question to me is, why not just manage the file in puppet entirely, it sounds like a piece of software not getting updated anymore

Definitely, though working in the scientific computing world, we've had to make compromises like this with weird proprietary software, and sometimes it's better to limit the scope of what's being managed

Another option would be packaging the change up as a diff to be applied via

patch

, which would have the advantage of failing if the target file has drifted from the original target

we have 4 compile masters and one of them is showing steady 35k command queue puppetdb... it has same hardware as other compilers that have 3 times as many nodes and they are at 0. what do you all suggest i look into.. we puppet infrastructure tune setup on primary server only, but compilers, as the cmd recommended, have not had any tuning overrides. there are only 350 nodes on that compile master that has the high queue

we also run our nodes in cached_catalog mode.. so none of our compilers are remotely taxed.. 0.2 load avg with 4cpu and 12GB ram

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Puppetdb? 35k command queue makes me think it's stuck trying to update data.

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we have 4 compile masters and one of them is showing steady 35k command queue puppetdb... it has same hardware as other compilers that have 3 times as many nodes and they are at 0. what do you all suggest i look into.. we puppet infrastructure tune setup on primary server only, but compilers, as the cmd recommended, have not had any tuning overrides. there are only 350 nodes on that compile master that has the high queue

Hola fellow puppeteers! I've been tasked with clustering a couple puppet servers in an active-passive (master/backup) configuration. I've found a few old articles on it, and the nuances are definitely around sharing the CA and client-signed certs. Can anyone point me in the right direction as far as best practices, gotchas, etc.? I don't think I need an external CA, I'm leaning towards a self-signed CA if that's possible. Is it as easy as just getting it working on one server, and copying it to the other one? I would refrain from using the machines hostname, so something like 'puppetserver.localdomain' . Finally, I stumbled across this 'alt-dns' thing, could it be as simple as creating an alt dns for the backup machine? https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/ssl_regenerate_certificates.html#regenerate_agent_certs_and_add_dns_alt_names

have rock solid 80ms ping between mstr and this compiler, able to do 15MB/s not seeing any sort of networking throughput or latency challenge

kermit typing 🧑‍🏫PE Console is about to start up in #CFD8Z9A4T

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if you don't have this type of setup, you can disregard my idea ... unless you are keen to reconfigure the DNS.

@jms1 What about

facter -p dmi.manufacturer

? I get

Microsoft Corporation

. Full disclosure. None of my azure assets run puppet, at the moment, and I simply installed

facter

to run this command.

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