Features, the forgotten feature of Puppet

How to use features (the Puppet feature) to improve custom facts and custom types / providers. Tagged with puppet, ruby.When you write enough Puppet code, you will eventually find yourself in need of a Facter fact or Puppet resource type that doesn’t exist in Puppet itself. Then, if you’re like me, you go to the Puppet Forge and see if someone else has written what you need. Oftentimes, you find what you need, add a new module to your Puppetfile or module metadata, and move on with your life.