Comment 6 for bug 806098
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| Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote Re: fact repository for Ensemble | #6 |
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Juan, facter is pretty much made for this very purpose. I actually like the way you've made use of it.
This data never needs to leave the local machine. Its just a local scratch pad, so putting it in ZK is a little bit weird.
What one needs to do is have a set of variables that are always accessible, which are controllable by each hook. I think this is a pretty common need, and will be used a lot with things like config settings.. where you may just store the settings in facts, and then re-run a common template regeneration mechanism. That sounds an awful lot like the way puppet does config management... and it also uses facter.
We should be able to develop a much lighter weight command that just stores keys/values locally and retrieves them when needed. I'd put this pretty low on the priority list though, as its not that terrible to depend on facter inside formulas.