Jira (FACT-3126) Add Block Groups to GCE Facts

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Ryan DeShone (Jira)

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Facter / Improvement FACT-3126
Add Block Groups to GCE Facts
Issue Type: Improvement Improvement
Affects Versions: FACT 4.2.10
Assignee: Unassigned
Components: Facter 4
Created: 2022/06/06 11:24 AM
Priority: Normal Normal
Reporter: Ryan DeShone

Currently, GCE facts in Facter are all lumped into one big fact group from a blocklist standpoint. From facter --list-block-groups

GCE
- gce

This is problematic, as the data it pulls in is pretty wide ranging. Specifically, I'm experiencing an issue at work where one GCE project has a large number of SSH keys. These keys all get pulled into the GCE fact (gce.instance.project.attributes.ssh-keys) resulting in puppet complaining about a fact being larger than the maximum size (fortunately, this is a soft error at the moment). Since we don't actually use that fact, we would like to be able to disable it, as it just wastes resources (it is also not really a fact about the machine really, but I digress). Sadly, since GCE facts are currently all-or-nothing, we cannot blocklist it because we do use other GCE facts pretty widely.

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Lisa Ross (Jira)

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Jul 28, 2022, 10:15:03 AM7/28/22
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Lisa Ross commented on Improvement FACT-3126
 
Re: Add Block Groups to GCE Facts

We should support the ability to block subset of FACTS. This will be prioritised in next sprint, may need a SPIKE ticket for some initial investigation. 

Nirupama Mantha 

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Lisa Ross (Jira)

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Lisa Ross updated an issue
 
Change By: Lisa Ross
Sprint: Phoenix 2022-08-31
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