For use with Puppet's Facter software on AWS EC2 instances. Created as a workaround to this bug: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-185.
Install at /etc/facter/facts.d/ec2_facts.sh. Below is an example of Hiera YAML to install it using Puppet. It requires the puppetlabs-vcsrepo module.
file:
'/opt/myOrg':
ensure: directory
'/etc/facter/facts.d/ec2_facts.sh':
ensure: link
target: '/opt/myOrg/ec2_facts.git/ec2_facts.sh'
vcsrepo:
'/opt/myOrg/ec2_facts.git':
ensure: present
provider: git
source: 'https://github.com/nixmore/ec2_facts.sh.git'
revision: 'master'
require:
- 'Package[git]'
Test it with "sudo facter | grep ec2"