Jira (FACT-2665) Investigate external fact execution

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Facter / FACT-2665 Investigate external fact execution Issue Type: Task Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2020/06/17 12:20 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Bogdan Irimie Add Comment

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Facter / FACT-2665 Investigate external fact execution

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Facter / FACT-2665 Investigate external fact execution Change By: Bogdan Irimie

Investigate when external facts are resolved in Facter 2, 3 and 4.

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Facter / FACT-2665 Investigate external fact execution Change By: Bogdan Irimie

Investigate when external facts are resolved in Facter 2, 3 and 4.

External fact example from [~josh] External fact directory: {code} /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/slow.rb {code} External fact code: {code} #!/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/ruby $stderr.puts "SLOW FACT" sleep 5 puts "slow=true" {code}

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Re: Investigate external fact execution On Facter 2 facter -v 2.5.7   List all facts loads external facts (including the slow fact) facter --external-dir /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d SLOW FACT ... slow => true ...   On Facter 3   On Facter 4

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Re: Investigate external fact execution

If we use the Ruby API: Facter.to_hash and Facter.value('fact_name'), both load external facts on all versions of Facter (2, 3, 4)

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Facter / FACT-2665 Investigate external fact execution

Change By: Bogdan Irimie Sprint: ghost - 2020-06-17 , ghost - 2020-06-18

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