Thanks a lot Rich! I appreciate the chat.
-------------------------- Warron French On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Rich Burroughs <[email protected]> wrote: > They would not likely have covered Rspec in Puppet Fundamentals, if you > took that. Rspec is a Ruby testing framework, and most of the Puppet > testing tools out there are based on it. > > And I think your challenge you mention isn't uncommon. A lot of sysadmins > can write scripts but don't have experience with engineering practices, > like writing tests. It's a new way of looking at things. > > The upside is that these kinds of skills are in demand, and in demand at > the more interesting shops out there to work at. So it's definitely in your > benefit to work through this and learn some new things :) Hang in there. > > > Rich > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:48 PM warron.french <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Rich, thank you for the clarification. The more we discuss this, the >> more clear (granted slowly) it becomes for me. >> >> -------------------------- >> Warron French >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Rich Burroughs <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPGcbtApFnmH6saptbLjekxQxkdM0Sv_OK%2BA13BeMTxjM4zZJg%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/CAJdJdQmuCCFOhKgKY-UYyHxE7pUB-31vkbm9QyHkGW_k%2BxVF-w%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQmuCCFOhKgKY-UYyHxE7pUB-31vkbm9QyHkGW_k%2BxVF-w%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/CAPGcbtCpc1LK%3Deu5GhFVnAfXbuvkafs_mPVBBiRAFDMq3urTUA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPGcbtCpc1LK%3Deu5GhFVnAfXbuvkafs_mPVBBiRAFDMq3urTUA%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. 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