Why are facts gathered in puppet and ansible

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There are facts gathered while using Ansible and Puppet(I have used only these two tools). I don't understand the point of gathering these facts. Where are these going to be used?
Feb 21, 2019 in Ansible by Laksha
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The facts gathered by these tools are actually very useful and used in many situations. For example,

  • You can create a web server configuration template and automatically fill in the appropriate IP address for a particular virtual host
  • You can also determine a lot about your system like that your server's distribution is ubuntu so you should run apache2 instead of httpd

answered Feb 21, 2019 by Vismaya

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