facter
Collect and display system facts (by puppetlabs)
facterdb
A Database of OS facts provided by Facter (by voxpupuli)
| facter | facterdb | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 2 | |
| 613 | 42 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 9.1 | 6.7 | |
| 7 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
facter
Posts with mentions or reviews of facter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-25.
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How to report bugs or view existing tickets of Puppet software nowadays?
I'm just wondering whether I'm the only one who's wondering how to access Puppet's ticket system nowadays? On the one hand I was stumbling over a bug in Facter last week which luckily has been fixed in the meantime because obviously someone else spotted it as well.
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Homelab Fetch: A fetch script for your homelab
or using community package: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/facter_module.html which uses this: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
The latest major version of Facter—Puppet's tool for collecting system information—has been out for some time now. However, we've been hard at work fixing bugs ever since. The fact that Facter has to be able to run on a variety of operating systems and architectures makes maintenance quite a challenging ordeal.
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Possible to report CPU serial numbers via Zabbix?
Look into the facter package: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
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AlmaLinux and Foreman + Katello
Facter 3.x (part of Puppet 6.x): up to now, AlmaLinux is incorrectly detected as RedHat operating system (fact os.name). I also submitted a patch here which got merged. But so far there hasn't been a new release of Facter 3.x yet. So anybody not building Facter from source has to wait for Facter 3.15.17. Facter 4 (part of Puppet 7.x) seems to work correctly and it wasn't affected by this issue, as it is a complete rewrite with a different resolver logic.
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Ipmitool Unable to establish IPMI v2 on idrac6 Dell r610
Check the getting started section: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter#getting-started
facterdb
Posts with mentions or reviews of facterdb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-06.
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A 15-year Puppet Journey
I joined Camptocamp in 2012 in large part because of the role the company played in the Puppet community. Together with my colleague Mickaël, we took to standardising and modernising our Puppet stack and modules, and got deeply involved in the community, writing plugins (puppet-lint plugins, facterdb/rspec-puppet-facter) and tools (prometheus-puppetdb-sd, puppetfile-updater, puppet-ghostbuster, etc.).
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
For each test, rspec-puppet stubs the fake facts using the custom facts API. The fake facts it gets from facterdb, which is a gem that contains "dummy" facts for a variety of operating systems and Facter versions—basically lots of files containing facter --json output. The resulting information is then fed to Puppet for catalog compilation.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing facter and facterdb you can also consider the following projects:
osinfo-db
rspec-puppet - RSpec tests for your Puppet manifests
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
puppetfile-updater - Keep your Puppetfile up-to-date
kmo-501-nginx - A mock nginx module for training
puppet-nginx - Puppet Module to manage NGINX on various UNIXes
fastlane - 🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
homelab-fetch