Facter 1.7 introduced support for external facts, and I gave some external fact examples, but it left a couple of small issues unresolved. One of the larger ones is the subject of syncing the external facts down to the clients.
At the moment most people are managing the external facts as file resources which creates one important difference between an internal and external fact. Internal facts are synced down at the start of the run and so are available to the puppet agent within a single run.
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