Jira (PUP-11430) Drop support for legacy facts in Puppet 8

Tim Meusel (Jira)

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PUP-11430

Drop support for legacy facts in Puppet 8

Issue Type:	Task
Assignee:	Unassigned
Created:	2022/01/20 1:54 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Tim Meusel

Hi!
https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/core_facts.html mentions a few facts that are listed as legacy for some time. I think puppet 8 (or facter 5?) would be a good time to drop them. The structured facts provide alternatives and the reduced amount of facts would be helpful to reduce the data sent to puppetdb.
Do you already have a timeline here?

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Josh Cooper (Jira)

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Feb 1, 2022, 5:01:03 PM2/1/22

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Re: Drop support for legacy facts in Puppet 8

bastelfreak we tried switching puppet builtin providers to using structured facts, but that introduced problems within the puppet ecosystem. I've linked this ticket to the other one. I agree we'd need to do this in puppet 8 as modules would need to be updated to stub the appropriate set of facts for provider suitability/confining logic.