Warning: Fact value '...' with the value length: '5274' exceeds the value length limit: 4096

[jkroepke]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 7.11.0
• Ruby: 2.7.3p183
• Distribution: Ubuntu 20.04
• Module version: 9.0.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

What are you seeing

$ puppet agent -t
Warning: Fact value '...' with the value length: '5274' exceeds the value length limit: 4096

... contains a whole certificate of a client, including comments

What behaviour did you expect instead

No warnings

Output log

$ puppet agent -t
Warning: Fact value '...' with the value length: '5274' exceeds the value length limit: 4096

Any additional information you'd like to impart

The warning introduced in puppet 7.10

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/release_notes_puppet.html#enhancements_puppet_x-7-10-0-PUP-11088

Looking at #322 , I would recommend to introduce a breaking change by removing the facts (and deploy logic) and bump the major version.