The agent does not pull modules in a master/agent setup. They are only on the master.
The catalog contains the info that the agent needs to get its managed resources into the desired state. It's not a list of modules. Rich On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM warron.french <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQnFb0rvuXrtyAhaeC1Vb0B5vdQ9hKbBi4oNxe2CHmy%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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/CAPGcbtApFnmH6saptbLjekxQxkdM0Sv_OK%2BA13BeMTxjM4zZJg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
