Fetch facter facts from a remote host and convert to be used in cucumber-puppet

fetch_facts.sh

#!/bin/bash

host=$1

if [ -z "$host" ]; then
  echo "please provide hostname for node to fetch facts from"
  exit
fi

file="features/nodes/$host.yaml"

cat > $file <<EOHEAD
--- !ruby/object:Puppet::Node
  classes: []
  environment: &id002 production
  name: $host
  parameters:
EOHEAD

# run facter on the remote host, remove the first line ("---"), indend the yaml under above params
ssh $host 'facter --yaml --puppet' \
     | sed -e '1d' \
     | sed -e 's/^/  /' \
     >> $file

echo "Facts for $host written to $file"