Henrik, that looks like the text straight of the man page, which is what I can't quite wrap my head around.
I thought the purpose of the catalog is for telling the agent what modules it needs to pull to update its files to what is specified in the modules. -------------------------- Warron French On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Henrik Lindberg < [email protected]> wrote: > On 18/02/16 02:10, warron.french wrote: > >> Can someone please clearly explain why/when to use: >> puppet apply versus Puppet agent? >> >> > puppet agent makes requests to the master - the master compiles the > catalog. > > puppet apply produces the catalog locally (must have all the manifests etc > on the agent) - a.k.a known as running masterless. > > - henrik > > -- > > Visit my Blog "Puppet on the Edge" > http://puppet-on-the-edge.blogspot.se/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/56C53891.4010104%40puppetlabs.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQnFb0rvuXrtyAhaeC1Vb0B5vdQ9hKbBi4oNxe2CHmy%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
