Chapter 5. Puppet Facts, Functions, and Templates
In this chapter, we will learn more advanced details of Puppet such as:
- Puppet facts
- Puppet templates
- Puppet functions
If you are familiar with programming languages, this chapter will be much easier to follow. Puppet uses Ruby as the coding language. We will not dive deep into the coding aspect and will use only enough coding to solve our problems. So, even if you do not have any coding experience, it will not be too hard to follow.
Puppet facts
Facts are structured data about the system that we can use anywhere in our manifests. They are imported to the Puppet parser as top scope variables. To display the facts of a host, we can use the facter command. We can write the command as follows to display ...
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