diff --git a/app/models/setting/auth.rb b/app/models/setting/auth.rb
index dc52f3c3324..4716558b0c6 100644
--- a/app/models/setting/auth.rb
+++ b/app/models/setting/auth.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-require 'facter'
 class Setting::Auth < Setting
   def self.default_settings
-    fqdn = Facter.value(:fqdn) || SETTINGS[:fqdn]
+    fqdn = SETTINGS[:fqdn]
     lower_fqdn = fqdn.downcase
     ssl_cert     = "#{SETTINGS[:puppetssldir]}/certs/#{lower_fqdn}.pem"
     ssl_ca_file  = "#{SETTINGS[:puppetssldir]}/certs/ca.pem"
diff --git a/app/models/setting/email.rb b/app/models/setting/email.rb
index 6f582afe5a8..2dd6c0bc859 100644
--- a/app/models/setting/email.rb
+++ b/app/models/setting/email.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-require 'facter'
-
 class Setting::Email < Setting
   NON_EMAIL_YAML_SETTINGS = %w(send_welcome_email email_reply_address email_subject_prefix)
 
diff --git a/app/models/setting/general.rb b/app/models/setting/general.rb
index cd64411ab05..725db57130a 100644
--- a/app/models/setting/general.rb
+++ b/app/models/setting/general.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'facter'
 class Setting::General < Setting
   include UrlValidator
 
@@ -6,7 +5,7 @@ def self.default_settings
     protocol = SETTINGS[:require_ssl] ? 'https' : 'http'
     domain = SETTINGS[:domain]
     administrator = "root@#{domain}"
-    foreman_url = "#{protocol}://#{Facter.value(:fqdn) || SETTINGS[:fqdn]}"
+    foreman_url = "#{protocol}://#{SETTINGS[:fqdn]}"
 
     [
       self.set('administrator', N_("The default administrator email address"), administrator, N_('Administrator email address')),
diff --git a/app/models/setting/provisioning.rb b/app/models/setting/provisioning.rb
index 67000c4f301..8066bfd4c9e 100644
--- a/app/models/setting/provisioning.rb
+++ b/app/models/setting/provisioning.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'facter'
 class Setting::Provisioning < Setting
   def self.default_global_labels
     TemplateKind::PXE.map do |pxe_kind|
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ def self.local_boot_labels
     'vovsbr*'
   ]
   def self.default_settings
-    fqdn = Facter.value(:fqdn) || SETTINGS[:fqdn]
+    fqdn = SETTINGS[:fqdn]
     unattended_url = "http://#{fqdn}"
     select = [{:name => _("Users"), :class => 'user', :scope => 'visible', :value_method => 'id_and_type', :text_method => 'login'},
               {:name => _("Usergroup"), :class => 'usergroup', :scope => 'visible', :value_method => 'id_and_type', :text_method => 'name'}]
diff --git a/config/settings.rb b/config/settings.rb
index 1915e66c872..6f81eff7948 100644
--- a/config/settings.rb
+++ b/config/settings.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 require_relative 'boot_settings'
 require_relative '../app/services/foreman/version'
-require 'facter'
 
 root = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/..")
 settings_file = Rails.env.test? ? 'config/settings.yaml.test' : 'config/settings.yaml'
@@ -13,9 +12,14 @@
 SETTINGS[:puppetvardir]  ||= '/var/lib/puppet'
 SETTINGS[:puppetssldir]  ||= "#{SETTINGS[:puppetvardir]}/ssl"
 SETTINGS[:rails] = '%.1f' % SETTINGS[:rails] if SETTINGS[:rails].is_a?(Float) # unquoted YAML value
-SETTINGS[:domain] ||= Facter.value(:domain) || Facter.value(:hostname)
 SETTINGS[:hsts_enabled] = true unless SETTINGS.has_key?(:hsts_enabled)
 
+unless SETTINGS[:domain] && SETTINGS[:fqdn]
+  require 'facter'
+  SETTINGS[:domain] ||= Facter.value(:domain) || Facter.value(:hostname)
+  SETTINGS[:fqdn] ||= Facter.value(:fqdn)
+end
+
 # Load plugin config, if any
 Dir["#{root}/config/settings.plugins.d/*.yaml"].each do |f|
   SETTINGS.merge! YAML.load(ERB.new(File.read(f)).result)
diff --git a/db/migrate/20100419151910_add_owner_to_hosts.rb b/db/migrate/20100419151910_add_owner_to_hosts.rb
index 5b9370004e7..ec4514eafb7 100644
--- a/db/migrate/20100419151910_add_owner_to_hosts.rb
+++ b/db/migrate/20100419151910_add_owner_to_hosts.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'facter'
 class AddOwnerToHosts < ActiveRecord::Migration[4.2]
   class User < ApplicationRecord; end
   class Host < ApplicationRecord; end
@@ -9,7 +8,7 @@ def up
 
     Host.reset_column_information
 
-    email = SETTINGS[:administrator] || "root@#{Facter.value(:domain)}"
+    email = SETTINGS[:administrator] || "root@#{SETTINGS[:domain]}"
     owner = User.find_by_mail email
     owner ||= User.where(:admin => true).first
     unless owner.nil? || owner.id.nil?
diff --git a/db/migrate/20100628123400_add_internal_auth.rb b/db/migrate/20100628123400_add_internal_auth.rb
index 7752eca7905..ebd4be88039 100644
--- a/db/migrate/20100628123400_add_internal_auth.rb
+++ b/db/migrate/20100628123400_add_internal_auth.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'facter'
 class AddInternalAuth < ActiveRecord::Migration[4.2]
   def up
     add_column :users, :password_hash, :string, :limit => 128
diff --git a/lib/tasks/reset_permissions.rake b/lib/tasks/reset_permissions.rake
index d25b5d1b8a0..e84a2291900 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/reset_permissions.rake
+++ b/lib/tasks/reset_permissions.rake
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-require 'facter'
 namespace :permissions do
   desc <<-END_DESC
 Create or reset "admin" user permissions to defaults.  Alternatively, you may