facterdb
A Database of OS facts provided by Facter (by voxpupuli)
Puppet
Server automation framework and application (by puppetlabs)
| facterdb | Puppet | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 42 | 7,286 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 6.7 | 9.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | 3 days 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.
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.
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.
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Updating modules to Puppet 8
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.
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What do you use ruby for?
I will happily direct your attention here: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
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Faster module tests with Facter 4 and rspec-puppet
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.