facter VS Puppet

Compare facter vs Puppet and see what are their differences.

facter

Collect and display system facts (by puppetlabs)

Puppet

Server automation framework and application (by puppetlabs)
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facter Puppet
7 3
613 7,286
0.2% 0.4%
9.1 9.8
7 days ago about 22 hours ago
Ruby Ruby
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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.
  • How to report bugs or view existing tickets of Puppet software nowadays?
    1 project | /r/Puppet | 27 Aug 2023
    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.
  • Homelab Fetch: A fetch script for your homelab
    2 projects | /r/homelab | 25 Jul 2022
    or using community package: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/facter_module.html which uses this: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
  • Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2022
    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.
  • Possible to report CPU serial numbers via Zabbix?
    1 project | /r/zabbix | 23 Sep 2021
    Look into the facter package: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter
  • AlmaLinux and Foreman + Katello
    2 projects | /r/AlmaLinux | 3 Apr 2021
    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.
  • Ipmitool Unable to establish IPMI v2 on idrac6 Dell r610
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 4 Feb 2021
    Check the getting started section: https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter#getting-started

Puppet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Puppet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
  • Updating modules to Puppet 8
    6 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    The Puppet 8 compatibility guide detailed the major changes we had to be aware of and we found it invaluable the effort. It's probably worth bookmarking that page until you're done with the upgrade.
  • What do you use ruby for?
    5 projects | /r/ruby | 4 Jul 2022
    I will happily direct your attention here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
  • Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
    6 projects | dev.to | 22 Jan 2022
    We started by decoupling Puppet from Facter as much as we could, introducing the possibility of having multiple Facter backends. While Puppet would use the default Facter implementation when running on its own, external users would be able to define and pass their own Facter implementation when initializing Puppet, similar to how puppetserver configures Puppet to use its JRuby-compliant HTTP client.