Puppet

Using the methodology described in PluginsInModules, I find that puppet syncs the facts properly, but doesn’t use those facts on that run, but requires you to re-run:

root@albatross:~# puppetd --test
info: Loading fact acpi_available
info: Loading fact interfaces
info: Loading fact private_ip
info: Loading fact netmask
info: Loading fact virtual
info: Loading fact vserver
info: Loading fact public_ip
info: Retrieving plugins
notice: /File[/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/in_colo.rb]/ensure: created
notice: Ignoring cache
err: Could not retrieve catalog: Failed to parse template bind9/named.conf.options: Could not find value for 'in_colo' at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/bind.pp:54 on node albatross
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
root@albatross:~# 

As you can see, the fact was created, but then it ailed to parse the template, which requires that fact. If I re-run puppet, it loads that fact properly.

Isn’t the point of the PluginsInModules that the sync happens first, then facts are loaded, so that this doesn’t happen?

I’m using 0.24.x