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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

I used to use a bootstrap script which would apply a bootstrap.pp, but that seems silly to me if puppet a simple puppet conditional can decide if I need this resource or not

@Mike Langhorst I recommend the

get()

or

getvar()

functions when dealing with values that might be

undef

. https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/function.html#get https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/function.html#getvar They allow for setting a default value if the variable's value is

undef

.

thanks @natemccurdy

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yea, it's for setting some oracle kernel params, based on $facts['memory']['system']['total_bytes'], and doing some division. But have a few cases where they want that different

but only a handful of cases

This is a contrived example of how to use

getvar()

to have a default for a class parameter that might come from Hiera:

class foo (
  Optional[String] $param1 = undef,
) {

  $real_value = getvar('param1', $facts['some_fact'])
}

Though, in the real world, I'd just put the default in the class parameter, like this:

class foo (
  String $param1 = $facts['some_fact'],
) {

}

@rusty @natemccurdy I've this in my controlrepo:

## hack pluginsync as file resource. only required for `puppet apply` usage
# this works by accident with puppet agent, but only on the puppetserver
# it breaks puppet agent on other systems, so we need to guard it
if $trusted['authenticated'] == 'local' {
  file { $::settings::libdir: # lint:ignore:top_scope_facts
    ensure  => directory,
    source  => 'puppet:///plugins', # lint:ignore:puppet_url_without_modules
    recurse => true,
    purge   => true,
    backup  => false,
    noop    => false,
  }
}

Also I was told that this hack isn't required anymore for

puppet apply

, but I had no time yet to verify. Maybe it works out of the box now with a correct

modulepath

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I am guarding, and indeed I have not the facter lib I need without it

Man, you got the weirdest configs

but, I can poke at it a bit more

I actually won’t touch /opt/puppetlabs for pretty much any reason save maybe being led through a procedure by support.

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yep.

2018-01-29

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it appears to be a issue with how it parses the pip3 version output

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can you upload your pip package on any webserver ? It's fairly easy to setup. 1. the directory in the the webserver must be browsable 2. under the root directory, you have directory names, which have the same name of the package name that they contain 3. inside each directory you place your corresponding pip package. For instance, you'll have something like the following:

/my_package/my_package-0.5.tar.gz

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can you upload your pip package onto any webserver ? It's fairly easy to setup. 1. the directory in the the webserver must be browsable 2. under the root directory, you have directory names, which have the same name of the package name that they contain 3. inside each directory you place your corresponding pip package. For instance, you'll have something like the following:

/my_package/my_package-0.5.tar.gz

How are people configuring network interfaces with Puppet?

example42/network

is deprecated, and suggests

puppet/network

as a replacement, but it will only configure a single IP address per interface, so if you have an interface which is IPv4 and IPv6, you have to configure one of them as an alias interface, which is not how it works these days.

See the

example42-network

module at https://forge.puppet.com/example42/network?src=slack&channel=puppet

Yes - it is deprecated as I noted

I’d just use systemd-networkd these days