Jira (PUP-9301) Reduce noise from notify resource

[Daniel Parks (JIRA)]

Daniel Parks created an issue

Puppet / PUP-9301 Reduce noise from notify resource Issue Type: Improvement Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2018/11/01 9:34 PM Labels: customer0 Priority: Normal Reporter: Daniel Parks Currently the notify resource produces a lot of extra output in --test: Notice: User['kfj'] not created because they don't have a password. Notice: /Stage[main]/Virtual::Users/Account::User[kfj]/Account::User::Windows[kfj]/Notify[User['kfj'] not created because they don't have a password.]/message: defined 'message' as 'User[\'kfj\'] not created because they don\'t have a password.' That outputs the message three times. I can reduce that slightly by setting the title to something else, but then I have to be careful to use a unique title. It would be awesome if it just outputted the message once. Or, if it outputted the message once and the title once — that would be worth it for certain messages. Add Comment

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[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

Josh Cooper commented on PUP-9301

Re: Reduce noise from notify resource I think those messages are coming from the accounts module you're using. Puppet itself doesn't emit those messages.

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[Daniel Parks (JIRA)]

Daniel Parks commented on PUP-9301

Re: Reduce noise from notify resource

The issue is with notify in general: ❯ puppet apply -e 'notify { "boo": }' Notice: Compiled catalog for marla.local in environment production in 0.01 seconds Notice: boo Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Notify[boo]/message: defined 'message' as 'boo' Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.01 seconds Note that it outputs “boo” three times. I think a decent solution would be a function that does this. It would output in --test mode, but it wouldn't create a resource, so it would have the extra noise, and it wouldn't register as a change in the report. I'll be tracking this from my community account Daniel Parks after 1/31.

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[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

Josh Cooper commented on PUP-9301

Re: Reduce noise from notify resource

There is a notice server function which does what you want when running puppet apply. But I think you're wanting a client side function, which is best handled using Deferred. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.5/write_a_puppet_function_to_store_secrets.html. That said we can't change how notify so I'm going to close this.

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