Feature #22213
openSet correct primary interface for hosts created from facts
Description
This is actually an issue with how Facter decides which interface is primary. (alphabetical order..)
(see: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-380)
Foreman displays the primary IP of a host based on the primary ipaddress fact.
This is confusing when you have interfaces that come before the legacy ethX names or biosdevnames (em, en, etc)
Examples of such interfaces: default docker bridge (docker0), default bond/bridge names (bond0, brX, etc)
There are a couple 'workarounds' for this issue:
- custom fact that parses the default route.
- override fact with environment variables on the host
I would obviously like to see foreman to select the correct IP address.
A possible resolution could be to add the ability for an admin to select which interface should be marked as primary by matching against interface identifiers when importing the facts. Puppet 4 also has networking.primary fact that is set to correct value for hosts provisioned from Foreman, it could be worth investigating what it contains in different workflows.
Updated by Ondřej Pražák over 7 years ago
- Subject changed from Set correct primary interface for hosts created from facts to Set correct primary interface for hosts created from facts
- Category changed from Web Interface to Puppet integration