Good 14:41 EDT. I have a custom fact that comes from an API call to Oracle Cloud API environment. The information from the API call that I need will never change throughout the lifetime of the virtual machine. Is there a way to cache custom facts in Puppet? I realize I could just run a cron job once a day and export to a file but I was hoping that perhaps there was some caching mechanism I could use before going the cron route. Thanks.

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Is there any extra config required to get filebucket backups working other than this in site.pp?

filebucket { 'main':
  path   => false,
  server => 'fqdn.corp',
}
File { backup => main, }

Anybody else with Fedora 42 who can't install/upgrade PDK 3.5.0? I've tried the Fedora 40 and EL 9 Core repositories and get GPG failures: Signature verification failed. The macOS installer is also not trusted (tested on two M2 macOS 15.5 laptops).

Hello friends, a colleague released a module on Forge under

worldline

org using

pdk release

command, but the forge returns an empty list when tryin g https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com/v3/modules?query=worldline-prosa&limit=100 Any idea why it's empty ?

I'm trying to understand the right way to manage puppet hiera parameter merging, I've got a successful hiera model working, my usecase is the hashicorp consul module, it has a parameter that sets which services are defined, I have a base service that is common across all nodes and it looks like this,

consul::services:

node-exporter:

address: "%{facts.fqdndns_ipaddress4}"

checks:

- http: <http://localhost:9100/metrics>

interval: 5s

port: 9100

tags:

- "job:node-exporter"

- "function:telemetry"

- "source:metrics"

- "environment:production"

- "hardware:%{facts.virtual}"

- "arch:%{facts.os.architecture}"

- "osname:%{facts.os.name}"

- "osversion:%{facts.os.release.full}"

meta:

SLA: 1

I want to understand how to append (I assume merging is the right way to this) additional service definitions to it depending on their position in the hiera structure, eg: on a mariadb profile the hiera would look like

consul::services:

node-exporter:

address: "%{facts.fqdndns_ipaddress4}"

checks:

- http: <http://localhost:9100/metrics>

interval: 5s

port: 9100

tags:

- "job:node-exporter"

- "function:telemetry"

- "source:metrics"

- "environment:production"

- "hardware:%{facts.virtual}"

- "arch:%{facts.os.architecture}"

- "osname:%{facts.os.name}"

- "osversion:%{facts.os.release.full}"

meta:

SLA: 1

consul::services:

maria-exporter:

address: "%{facts.fqdndns_ipaddress4}"

checks:

- http: <http://localhost:9104/metrics>

interval: 5s

port: 9100

tags:

- "job:maria-exporter"

- "function:telemetry"

- "source:metrics"

- "environment:production"

- "hardware:%{facts.virtual}"

- "arch:%{facts.os.architecture}"

- "osname:%{facts.os.name}"

- "osversion:%{facts.os.release.full}"

meta:

SLA: 3

ok, so you want to look for the lookup_options key for hiera https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/hiera_merging#concept-2997

I'd give you newer docs, but they redirect to the useless new system

yeah, the new redirect is annoying

that's what I was trying to find, lookup_options, thank youi

you

I'm still playing with the puppetlabs-mysql module, there is a parameter server::users which takes a hash for it's values, I worked out that mysql_user (which this hash is passed into) is a provider the module creates, that you can see in the provider/mysql_user directory of the module, however looking at all the docs, I couldn't see how to work out what parameters/values the mysql_user provider actually expects, the param itself is documented as

Optional hash of users to create, which are passed to [mysql_user](#mysql_user).

this lead me to a second problem which is just a knowledge gap I fall into over and over, where is the documentation on the correct formatting for hiera I consistently think I know how to set a hash parameter in hiera (I even reference examples I've used before) to find I've done it wrong, is there a solid documentation reference somewhere on the correct way to set different types of parameters in hiera ?

that isn't really Hiera specific, but more a general yaml formatting question? Did you take a look at yamllint?

I did consider just looking at yaml formatting as a guide, but before I went into it I thought I'd ask here to make sure there wasn't anything specific I needed to know/consider

there isn't

that;s a good enough answer for me, I'm keen to just close this gap as I make the mistake too many times

$mysql::users

takes a hash. The key is the resource title, the value is a hash with parameters for https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/blob/main/lib/puppet/type/mysql_user.rb

I'd partially worked that out, that the key would be the username, and the parameters be the option and their value, but what parameters will it accept as there are many ways to add a user in maria, eg: via a grant, or the add user command etc I couldn't work out the method it was using to create the user as that will at least give a clue to what parameters it wants

they are all listed in https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql/blob/main/lib/puppet/type/mysql_user.rb

let me have another look then, I gave it some time at the weekend but a review now wouldn't hurt

ahh, are each of the newproperty lines the parameters it's taking in

yes

ok. I see it now, thank you

then it loops through, I see it

wait a second. the PDK is no longer available through Homebrew, only as a licensed download?

yes

🤬

Switch to vox pupuli tooling? :)

Have I missed a memo? How do you install vox tools on mac ?