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  2. PUP-8502

Puppet lookup always includes classes from the ENC

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      Puppet lookup should not include the catalog unless --compile is specified. 

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      Puppet lookup should not include the catalog unless --compile is specified. 
    • Sub-team:
    • Team:
      Platform Core
    • Sprint:
      Platform Core KANBAN
    • Method Found:
      Customer Feedback
    • CS Priority:
      Major
    • CS Frequency:
      3 - 25-50% of Customers
    • CS Severity:
      3 - Serious
    • CS Business Value:
      5 - $$$$$$
    • CS Impact:
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      Lookup is very helpful but this is one of a number of issues with it related to how it interacts with the PE Node Classifier or other ENCs. A workaround exists as mentioned in this ticket but it's not intuitive and so most customers are likely to put in a support ticket about this.

      We should probably document a known issue around this which includes the workaround.
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      Lookup is very helpful but this is one of a number of issues with it related to how it interacts with the PE Node Classifier or other ENCs. A workaround exists as mentioned in this ticket but it's not intuitive and so most customers are likely to put in a support ticket about this. We should probably document a known issue around this which includes the workaround.
    • Release Notes:
      Bug Fix
    • Release Notes Summary:
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      The lookup CLI tool called the ENC (node terminus) even if {{\--compile}} was not in effect. This could cause errors as classes indicated by the ENC would get loaded without a full and proper setup (could also error if loaded code was had parse errors). Now the configured ENC is only used if {{\--compile}} is in effect.
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      The lookup CLI tool called the ENC (node terminus) even if {{\--compile}} was not in effect. This could cause errors as classes indicated by the ENC would get loaded without a full and proper setup (could also error if loaded code was had parse errors). Now the configured ENC is only used if {{\--compile}} is in effect.

      Description

      The puppet lookup command evaluates classes that are returned from the ENC when the --compile flag is not specified. This results in failures of the lookup command if the catalog cannot be compiled. 

       

      Reproduction Steps 

      1. Install PE or Puppetserver
      2. Create a class like the one below.
      3. Classify a node with the class in the classifier
      4. Run puppet lookup anyhierakey --node <nodename>

      A simple class to cause a failure in the lookup is below. 

       

      class test (
      		 
        String $myparam,
      		 
      ) {
      		 
        file {$myparam:
      		 
          ensure => absent,
      		 
        }
      		 
      }

      Logs

      Using the steps above, we see this output from a lookup.

      # puppet lookup anything --node pe-201735-agent.puppetdebug.vlan --debug 
      ...
      		 
      Debug: importing '/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/test/manifests/init.pp' in environment production
      		 
      Debug: Automatically imported test from test into production
      		 
      ...
      		 
      Error: Could not run: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Class[Test]: expects a value for parameter 'myparam'

      Workaround

      Add the --node_terminus plain to the command.

      # puppet lookup anything --node pe-201735-agent.puppetdebug.vlan --node_terminus plain
      		 
      --- "test"

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            jarret.lavallee Jarret Lavallee
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