So far, in this book, we have been using Puppet's built-in facts, such as the ipaddress_eth1
and uptime
. In comparison to functions, facts are much easier to use as they don't accept arguments. We just reference them like we reference any Puppet variable using the $fact_name
or $::fact_name
syntax. Personally, I like to use the $::fact_name
syntax because it clearly defines the scope of the variable. This is also the syntax recommended in the Puppet Language Style Guide (https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html). The $::
prefix in Puppet variables means that the variable scope is global ($::fact_name
) as opposed to local ($fact_name
). Although Puppet doesn't allow you to declare a local variable with the same name as a fact, it is a good practice to include the scope prefix ($::
) when referencing facts. When someone is studying a manifest that I've written, they can easily see from the $::
prefix that the variable is referencing the fact rather than the local...
LEARNING PUPPET
LEARNING PUPPET
Overview of this book
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Puppet
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Puppet Development in Isolation
Managing Packages in Puppet
My First Puppet Module
Monitoring Your Web Server
Load Balancing the Cluster
Scaling Up the Puppet Environment
Making the Configuration Dynamic
Extending Puppet
The Puppet Enterprise Console
Troubleshooting Puppet
Index
Customer Reviews