Puppet VS facter

Compare Puppet vs facter and see what are their differences.

Puppet

Server automation framework and application (by puppetlabs)

facter

Collect and display system facts (by puppetlabs)
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Puppet facter
2 7
7,246 612
0.6% 0.3%
9.8 9.2
2 days ago 8 days ago
Ruby Ruby
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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 2022-07-04.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 4 Feb 2021
    https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter#requirements

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Puppet and facter you can also consider the following projects:

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

BOSH - Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.

Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale

Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

Mina - Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool

PuPHPet - Vagrant/Puppet GUI

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]

Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework

CFEngine - CFEngine Community

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: