Warning: The directory '/srv/puppetboard/puppetboard' contains 1936 entries, which exceeds the default soft limit 1000

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Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 7.15.0, server 7.6.1
• Ruby: 2.7.5
• Distribution: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
• Module version: 8.1.0

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

Thanks for a great module BTW.

puppet 7.6 or 7.6.1 or introduced a warning when a File resource affects more than 1000 files by default. The puppetboard module trips over the limit and produces a warning because of the number of files in the puppetboard repository.

puppetboard/manifests/init.pp at line 224:

  file { "${basedir}/puppetboard":
    owner   => $user,
    recurse => true,
    require => Vcsrepo["${basedir}/puppetboard"],
    max_files => -1,
  }

max_files defaults to 0 (issues a warning). I added the attribute with a value -1 which disables the warning. You might want to choose a different value, but that may cause the resource to fail at some later time when the files in the repo exceed the limit.

I have a slightly unusual puppetboard setup managed by puppet because I couldn't at the time figure out to make the puppetboard module manage the apache vhost with SSL certificate authentication. The apache portion of the configuration is is not relevant to the warning but I've included it anyway.

$ssl_dir = $::settings::ssldir
$puppetboard_certname = $trusted['certname']
class { 'puppetboard':
    manage_virtualenv => true,
    manage_git        => true,
    revision          => 'master',
    puppetdb_host     => 'puppetdb01.xxxxx.com',
    puppetdb_port     => 8081,
    puppetdb_key        => "${ssl_dir}/private_keys/${puppetboard_certname}.pem",
    puppetdb_ssl_verify => "${ssl_dir}/certs/ca.pem",
    puppetdb_cert       => "${ssl_dir}/certs/${puppetboard_certname}.pem",
    reports_count => 35,
    enable_catalog  => true,
    default_environment => 'production',
    extra_settings  => {
        'DAILY_REPORTS_CHART_DAYS' => '15',
        'TABLE_COUNT_SELECTOR' => '[10, 20, 50, 100, 500]',
        'GRAPH_TYPE' => '"pie"',
        'GRAPH_FACTS' => "['architecture', 'clientversion', 'domain',
            'lsbcodename', 'lsbdistcodename', 'lsbdistid',
            'lsbdistrelease', 'lsbmajdistrelease', 'netmask', 'osfamily',
            'puppetversion', 'processorcount', 'windows_product_name',
            'windows_release_id', 'windows_edition_id', 'kernelversion']"
    },
}

file { '/etc/ssl/certs/xxxxx_Certificate_Authority.pem':
    content => file('xxxxx_ssl/xxxxx_Certificate_Authority.pem'),
    notify  => Service['httpd'],
}
file { '/etc/ssl/certs/puppetboard-test.xxxxx.com.pem':
    content => file('xxxxxx_puppetboard/puppetboard-test.xxxxx.com.pem'),
    notify  => Service['httpd'],
}
file {'/etc/ssl/private/puppetboard-test.xxxxxx.com.key':
    content => file('xxxxx_puppetboard/puppetboard-test.xxxxx.com.key'),
    notify  => Service['httpd'],
}
class { 'apache':
    default_vhost => false,
}
class { 'apache::mod::wsgi':
    package_name    => 'libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3',
    mod_path        => '/usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_wsgi.so',
}
apache::vhost { $trusted[certname]:
    vhost_name  => $trusted[certname],
    ip          => '192.168.1.131',
    port        => 443,
    docroot     => '/srv/puppetboard/puppetboard',

    wsgi_application_group  => 'puppetboard',
    wsgi_process_group      => 'puppetboard',
    wsgi_daemon_process     => 'puppetboard',
    wsgi_daemon_process_options => {
        python-home     => '/srv/puppetboard/virtenv-puppetboard',
        user            => 'puppetboard',
        processes       => 5,
        threads         => 25,
        display-name    => 'puppetboard',
    },
    wsgi_script_aliases => { '/' => '/srv/puppetboard/puppetboard/wsgi.py' },

    ssl                 =>  true,
    ssl_ca              => '/etc/ssl/certs/xxxxx_Certificate_Authority.pem',
    ssl_cert            => '/etc/ssl/certs/puppetboard-test.xxxxx.com.pem',
    ssl_key             => '/etc/ssl/private/puppetboard-test.xxxxx.com.key',
    ssl_options         => '+StdEnvVars',
    ssl_verify_client   => 'require',
    ssl_verify_depth    => 1,
}

What are you seeing

root@puppetdb01:/etc/puppetlabs/puppetdb/conf.d# puppet agent -t
Info: Using environment 'infrastructure'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for puppetdb01.xxxxxx.com
Info: Applying configuration version '1648231182'
Warning: The directory '/srv/puppetboard/puppetboard' contains 1936 entries, which exceeds the default soft limit 1000 and may cause excessive resource consumption and degraded performance. To remove this warning set a value for max_files parameter or consider using an alternate method to manage large directory trees

What behaviour did you expect instead

No warning.

Output log

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