facterdb

A Gem that contains a lot of facts for a lot of Operating Systems.

Usage

CLI

facterdb 'facterversion=/^2.4\./ and (operatingsystem=Debian and operatingsystemrelease>=7 or operatingsystem=RedHat and operatingsystemrelease=/^7/)'

Will return a JSON containing the facts for Debian 7, Debian 8 and RedHat 7 generated by Facter 2.4.

Ruby

require 'facterdb'
FacterDB::get_facts()

Returns an Array of Hash containing the whole facts database.

Filtering by Facter version and fact values

With an Array filter

require 'facterdb'

FacterDB.get_facts([{:osfamily => 'Debian'}])

With an Hash filter

require 'facterdb'

FacterDB.get_facts({:osfamily => 'Debian'})

With a String filter

require 'facterdb'

FacterDB::get_facts('osfamily=Debian')

Facter versions supported

• 1.6
• 1.7
• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.3

Operating Systems supported

• AIX
• ArchLinux
• CentOS 5
• CentOS 6
• CentOS 7
• Debian 6
• Debian 7
• Debian 8
• Fedora 19
• Fedora 22
• Fedora 23
• Fedora 24
• FreeBSD 9
• FreeBSD 10
• Gentoo
• OpenBSD 5.7
• OpenBSD 5.8
• OpenBSD 5.9
• OpenBSD 6.0
• OpenSuse 12
• OpenSuse 13
• Oracle 5
• Oracle 6
• Oracle 7
• RedHat 5
• RedHat 6
• RedHat 7
• Scientific 5
• Scientific 6
• Scientific 7
• SLES 11
• SLES 12
• Solaris 11
• OSX 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 14.10
• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Windows 2012 r2
• Windows 7

Add new Operating System support

There is Vagrantfile to automagically populate facts directory by spawning a new VM and launches a provisioning scripts.

$ cd facts
$ vagrant up --provision

Create i386 facts from x86_64's ones

for file in facts/*/*-x86_64.facts; do cat $file | sed -e 's/x86_64/i386/' -e 's/amd64/i386/' > $(echo $file | sed 's/x86_64/i386/'); done

Create RedHat, Scientific, OracleLinux facts from CentOS's ones

for file in facts/*/centos-*.facts; do cat $file | sed -e 's/CentOS/RedHat/' > $(echo $file | sed 's/centos/redhat/'); done
for file in facts/*/centos-*.facts; do cat $file | sed -e 's/CentOS/Scientific/' > $(echo $file | sed 's/centos/scientific/'); done
for file in facts/*/centos-*.facts; do cat $file | sed -e 's/CentOS/OracleLinux/' > $(echo $file | sed 's/centos/oraclelinux/'); done