what’s in your /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments directory?

Love your dog, btw

oh thanks 🙂 unfortunately, he passed away. I got a new dog, but can't bring myself to change the picture

awwww

yea, worst part about dogs

dog person right here. Got me a picky schnauzer

I have a half pit half something rescue. Looks pretty similar to the dog in my picture actually

same color

Ok, so clearly your issue intruiges me because this is not a core fact to Puppet: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/core_facts.html

the only thing in that directory is 3 environment folders, production, dev, test

That fact you’re trying to look up doesn’t exist in Facter natively, so there’s a custom fact value being expressed somewhere in your environment

I suppose that could be in a module that was added before me. I always assumed it was a builtin because it has a TON of information about puppet

Generally speaking, Puppet’s config is found via

puppet config print

main is not the same thing as agent.

So, I wonder if you are configuring your system with a puppet module, and its in that module’s facts.d or lib/facter

Nate always goes for the jugular. 😄

looks like it's in a module called simplib

or possibly stdlib

sudo puppet config print environment --section main

vs.

sudo puppet config print environment --section agent

yes. stdlib

try this:

facter puppet-settings.main.environment environment=production

looks like that fact is intended to be used from within Puppet code:

# These facter facts return the value of the Puppet vardir and environment path
# settings for the node running puppet or puppet agent.  The intent is to
# enable Puppet modules to automatically have insight into a place where they
# can place variable data, or for modules running on the puppet master to know
# where environments are stored.

yea, we've been using it to check environment, which works for all but one of our servers, the puppet master

that’s in teh header of the puppet_settings fact in stdlib

the Puppet master is…. shall we say…. “special”

I would refrain on there. He may not even be classified with that class

probably... not sure how though. I'm thinking it might just be better to use

$facts['agent_specified_environemt']

again, your Puppet server is special. At some level, he “knows” about all the environments, and has visibility in each. He also can operate in any of them when compiling a catalog.

that doesn't look like a core fact either though

how do you classify nodes? Hiera?