Provisioning plugins should have a method of setting jail specific "facts"

[igalic]

I propose a new entry to the provision config space: a dict of facts.

the name is up for discussion, since every configuration management software names them differently:

• puppet has facter facts
• chef has ohai attributes (and hints)
• Ansible's setup module gathers facts, and can utilise either of the above to its advantage
• salt has grains

i could go on, but these are the systems i have at least passing familiarity with.

Each of them also has a concept of a "custom fact". These are most often used to classify the system, e.g.: assign a specific role.

[igalic]

unless this is already possible in the API, this issue depends on bsdci/ioc#18

[igalic]

libioc.Config.Data.Data.__iter__() only returns the flat structure:

libioc/libioc/Config/Data.py

Lines 162 to 170 in 5f869c1

	def __iter__(self) -> typing.Iterator[str]:
	"""Return the flattened dict iterator."""
	for key in dict.__iter__(self):
	value = dict.__getitem__(self, key)
	if isinstance(value, Data) is True:
	for subkey in value.__iter__():
	yield f"{key}.{subkey}"
	else:
	yield key

which might make it tricky to get an entire dict from it…

[igalic]

I've solved this with a bit of example code in our bsdci/puppet-control-repo and documentation

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n.b.: I'm using that exact example code ;)