Jira (FACT-2823) SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

[Nick Walker (Jira)]

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Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary Issue Type: New Feature Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2020/09/30 8:57 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Nick Walker Having a standalone executable of Facter would allow for easily shipping Facter down to a node and gathering facts.   This would enable Bolt to gather facts for nodes without installing the full puppet-agent package.     Possible options: https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer This is a spike to determine how technically feasible it is to make Facter into a single binary.       Add Comment

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[Nick Walker (Jira)]

Nick Walker updated an issue

Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Nick Walker

Having a standalone executable of Facter would allow for easily shipping Facter down to a node and gathering facts.   This would enable Bolt to gather facts for nodes without installing the full puppet-agent package.     Possible options: [https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer]

This is a spike to determine how technically feasible it is to make Facter into a single binary.  We can start by looking into making a binary for EL.

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[Mihai Buzgau (Jira)]

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Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Mihai Buzgau Story Points: 3

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[Mihai Buzgau (Jira)]

Mihai Buzgau updated an issue

Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Mihai Buzgau Sprint: PR - Triage

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[Mihai Buzgau (Jira)]

Mihai Buzgau updated an issue

Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Mihai Buzgau Sprint: PR NW - Triage 2020-08-28

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

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Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Gheorghe Popescu Assignee: Gheorghe Popescu

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu commented on FACT-2823

Re: SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary Making the binary for EL is straightforward: Steps to build on el8: 1. prepare Facter repo git clone https://github.com/gimmyxd/facter.git git checkout ruby-packer(this branch contains some changes need in facter in order to build) 2. prepare rubyc dnf install squashfs-tools, bison wget https://gw.alipayobjects.com/os/enclose-prod/1fd23e6b-d48f-4ed0-94dd-f0f539960253/rubyc-v0.4.0-linux-x64.gz gzip -d rubyc-v0.4.0-linux-x64.gz mv rubyc-v0.4.0-linux-x64 rubyc chmod +x rubyc 3. build facter ./rubyc facter/bin/facter -o facter

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu commented on FACT-2823

Re: SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

facter changes: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/compare/main...gimmyxd:ruby-packer

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu commented on FACT-2823

Re: SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Can be built easily on OSX too, using the vmpooler images. In terms of performance, the standalone executable has a slight improvement over running from gem using bundler, around 5%(tested on OSX 10.15 and Centos 8)

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu commented on FACT-2823

Re: SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Some limitations: the stable version comes with ruby 2.4 and bundler 1.5(there is a nightly with ruby 2.7 and bundler 2) facter uses a different gemspec for agent(which is not loaded when using ruby-packer to build the executable)

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu commented on FACT-2823

Re: SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

[^facter_el8]

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu updated an issue

Facter / FACT-2823

SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Gheorghe Popescu Comment: [^facter_el8]

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu commented on FACT-2823

Re: SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary executable build on el8: [^facter_el8]

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[Gheorghe Popescu (Jira)]

Gheorghe Popescu updated an issue

Facter / FACT-2823

SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Gheorghe Popescu Attachment: facter_el8

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[Claudia Petty (Jira)]

Claudia Petty updated an issue

Facter / FACT-2823 SPIKE - Investigate turning facter into a single binary

Change By: Claudia Petty Labels: new-feature

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