Jira (FACT-3144) Hypervisors experimental fact improvements

[Patrick Grant (Jira)]

Patrick Grant created an issue

Facter / FACT-3144 Hypervisors experimental fact improvements Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2022/09/05 3:05 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Patrick Grant Info raised from a support customer: The info it (hypervisor experimental fact) provides at the moment isn't very useful. I wanted to provide some feedback in hopes of improving it in future versions. I use 2 hypervisors. openstack and vmware. At the moment. on openstack it returns "hypervisors::kvm::openstack: true" I would like to use it to provide a hiera source for openstack machines. Which is incovenient with that data format. I would find it more useful if it returned something like   hypervisors::virtualisation: kvm   hypervisors::cluster: openstack. Similarly for vmware, it returns "hypervisors::vmware: {}" which is difficult to make use of. I would find it more useful if it returned something like hypervisors::virtual: vmware   hypervisors::cluster: vmware Add Comment

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[Alvin Rodis (Jira)]

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Facter / FACT-3144 Hypervisors experimental fact improvements

Change By: Alvin Rodis Zendesk Ticket Count: 1 Zendesk Ticket IDs: 49525

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[Alvin Rodis (Jira)]

Alvin Rodis updated an issue

Facter / FACT-3144 Hypervisors experimental fact improvements

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[Morgan Rhodes (Jira)]

Morgan Rhodes commented on FACT-3144

Re: Hypervisors experimental fact improvements Patrick Grant could we get the current output of the hypervisor fact from the customer? The way it is written it isn't super clear what they're seeing right now.

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[Patrick Grant (Jira)]

Patrick Grant updated an issue

Facter / FACT-3144 Hypervisors experimental fact improvements

Change By: Patrick Grant

Info raised from a support customer: The info it (hypervisor experimental fact) provides at the moment isn't very useful. I wanted to provide some feedback in hopes of improving it in future versions. I use 2 hypervisors. openstack and vmware. At the moment. on openstack it returns "hypervisors::kvm::openstack: true" I would like to use it to provide a hiera source for openstack machines. Which is incovenient with that data format. I would find it more useful if it returned something like

{code:java}

hypervisors::virtualisation: kvm hypervisors::cluster: openstack.

{code}

Similarly for vmware, it returns "hypervisors::vmware: {}" which is difficult to make use of. I would find it more useful if it returned something like

{code:java}

hypervisors::virtual: vmware hypervisors::cluster: vmware

{code} The hypervisors fact is also being generated using the whereami library. However, the related virtual and is_virtual facts are being generated using virt-what. Which can lead to inconsistent results between the facts. I would be nicer if these related facts used whereami consistently.

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[Patrick Grant (Jira)]

Patrick Grant commented on FACT-3144

Re: Hypervisors experimental fact improvements

The customers use case is indeed to use the facts to provide a hiera source for openstack machines, and at the minute the format of the data isn't useful for that

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