Use external facts inside templetes

[Malintha Adikari]

I have defined some key value pairs in /etc/facter/facts.d/value.txt file. I could use those keys inside my init.pp script and successfully for the values using ${key1}   I want to get those values inside my template file. I have used <%= @key1 %>   but it doesn't give me the value. What is the correct way to get the value of the external fact inside template. Regards, Malintha

[Sans]

Hi there,

First of all, if it's a fact, then you really should be doing ${::key1} instead.

To use it in template, <%= @key1 %> should work just fine.  Otherwise, you can have this: $localkey = ${::key1} in your init.pp and then <%= @localkey %> in the template but I don't think you gonna get anything thing better.

On the agent, if you do: facter -p key1, do you get the result that you expect? Best!

[Malintha Adikari]

Hi Sans,

My issue was solved. My actual key name was "portOffset". Note about the camel case. (there is a capital 'O'). What I did was changed it to just "portoffset" and works fine. Is this a issue ?

Regards,
Malintha Adikari