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  • t
    So you want to read information from Foreman. You can do so by making use of the foreman api: https://apidocs.theforeman.org/foreman/3.5/apidoc/v2.html There is a python extension available: https://github.com/david-caro/python-foreman This makes you independent from Puppet Server.
  • n
    We dont use PuppetDB until now, but Ill read this: https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/server/http_api_index.html in hope to do something like what foreman do. Only about 5 Parameters. thank you so much @tuxmea, does forman use this api to talk to puppet ß
  • n
    We dont use PuppetDB until now, but Ill read this: https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/server/http_api_index.html in hope to do something like what foreman do. Only about 5 Parameters. thank you so much @tuxmea, does forman use this api to talk to puppet ?
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  • y
    Anyone here is managing Jenkins with Puppet? How do you manage the configuration and jobs? Is it done with puppet-jenkins experimental features or with JCasC plugin?
  • d
  • l
    we're using puppet to manage jcasc
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  • i
    Anyone got any insight on output from puppet module list - specifically I’m getting; Warning: “Missing dependency ‘MOD1’: ‘MOD2’ (v1.0) requires ‘MOD1’ (>= 0.0.0) And later in the listing MOD1 (v1.0) I’ve checked the metadata for the two modules and MOD2 does indeed have a dependency on MOD1 (version >= 0.0.0) - but whats confusing me is that MOD1 is installed at version 1.0 !!
  • n
    Is the 
    v
    throwing off the comparison? Is MOD1's version in metadata.json literally 
    v1.0
    ?
  • v
    imho face adds it in output
  • n
    Ah yeah, I think you're right. That always confused me 🙂 Just show me the real value please.
  • b
    is that maybe in another environment? seeing the whole output would help :)
  • m
    In the past I spent some time to create this module.... it was pretty nice, but I'd rather use Gluster or Ceph these days. https://forge.puppet.com/modules/maxadamo/tiny_nas/readme
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  • m
    Yes, a backup, where you sync a few directories would work. I took a few notes on loadbalancing techniques for puppet (you can disregard what I wrote about ZFS: I had strange ideas 😁 ) https://github.com/maxadamo/improved-puppetserver
  • m
    And this is the script, which detects CPU usage (it's like a Nagios script): https://github.com/maxadamo/improved-puppetserver/blob/master/scripts/puppet-check.sh
  • m
    it's going better today .... thanks I think Consul runs on FreeBSD as well. It's a Go application compiled for different architectures, but it implies that you need to reconfigure your DNS. Maybe the loadbalancer is more viable
  • r
    Is there a way to tell, during either an agent run or an apply run, which type of run you are doing?
  • n
    Tell from within Puppet itself? Like... so you could use that information during catalog compilation?
  • r
    yes.I'm trying to get around the lack of pluginsync for a bootstrap run. I can do this:
  • r
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    file { '/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache/lib/':
    ensure  => 'directory',
    source  => 'puppet:///plugins', # lint:ignore:puppet_url_without_modules
    recurse => true,
    purge   => false,
    backup  => false,
  }
  • r
    only do :this when it is an apply run
  • r
    because I need a bare minimum set of facts to bootstrap
  • r
    after this, normal pluginsync would be used with agent
  • n
    So... I'm not totally sure I agree with your plan of making this dynamic in the Puppet code itself, but to answer your original question directly, one indirect way of determining 
    apply
    vs. 
    agent
    is to check for the presence of the 
    $server_facts['servername']
    variable ref: https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/lang_facts_builtin_variables.html#lang_facts_builtin_variables-server-facts
  • c
    Like, do a “preload” module that runs first, and has a lib/facter or a facts.d to get the facts synced over immediately before doing anything else
  • m
    what's the best/proper way to check for a variable that's got an undef value? I'd like to be able to use a value from hiera if supplied, but if not set a var to a calculated value using facts
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    if getvar('server_facts.servername') {
  notice("I'm in agent mode")
} else {
  notice("I'm in apply mode")
}
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    if getvar('server_facts.servername') {
  notice("I'm in agent mode")
} else {
  notice("I'm in apply mode")
}
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