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Add EC2 VPC facts to Facter 1.7, drop this file into `/etc/facter/facts.d/`
require 'facter/ec2'
# We might be in a VPC, which fails the normal EC2 MAC address checks
if !Facter.value('ec2_instance_id') && Facter.value('virtual') =~ /xen/ && Facter::Util::EC2.can_connect?(0.2)
Facter.debug "This is an EC2 VPC instance"
metadata
userdata
# vpc-id is in a newer metadata api rev than the usual EC2 facts
Facter.add(:ec2_vpc_id) do
setcode do
mac = open("http://169.254.169.254/2011-01-01/meta-data/mac").read.chomp
open("http://169.254.169.254/2011-01-01/meta-data/network/interfaces/macs/#{mac}/vpc-id").read.chomp
end
end
else
Facter.debug "Still not an EC2 host"
end
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snetch commented Feb 4, 2014

Whenever I try to run this, I get:
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/ec2.rb:6: uninitialized constant Facter (NameError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ec2.rb:1:in require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ec2.rb:1 from ./ec2_vpc.rb:2:inrequire'
from ./ec2_vpc.rb:2

When I run a couple commands in irb (command line ruby), I get this:
irb(main):001:0> require 'facter/ec2'
NameError: uninitialized constant Facter
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/ec2.rb:6
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ec2.rb:1:in require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/ec2.rb:1 from (irb):1:inrequire'
from (irb):1
from �:0
irb(main):002:0> require 'facter/util/ec2'
NameError: uninitialized constant Facter
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/ec2.rb:6
from (irb):2:in `require'
from (irb):2
from �:0

In /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/util/ec2.rb , it fails on the line that says "module Facter::Util::EC2"
Seems like this script requires facter/ec2, which requires facter/util/ec2, which fails for no apparent darn reason.

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snetch commented Feb 4, 2014

When, however, I dropped this into /usr/lib/ruby/site-ruby/1.8/facter, it worked fine.

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