I’m unfortunatey stuck, at least for the time being, using flat-file manifests to configure my puppet nodes. Without an ENC, it’s pretty difficult to get a good ovewview of what classes are used on each node, and what nodes use a given class. I know I could write …

For anyone else who sets the Puppet config_version paramater to return the current SVN or Git version of your configuration, here’s a fact that grabs that version (by parsing the cached YAML catalog) and sets it as a fact called “catalog_config_version”. It can then be used for sanity-checking your …