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Puppet 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   Puppet 5 Cookbook Jump start your Puppet 5.x deployment using engaging and practical recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622448
Length 394 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Uphill Thomas Uphill
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Puppet Language and Style FREE CHAPTER 2. Puppet Infrastructure 3. Writing Better Manifests 4. Working with Files and Packages 5. Users and Virtual Resources 6. Managing Resources and Files 7. Managing Applications 8. Servers and Cloud Infrastructure 9. External Tools and the Puppet Ecosystem 10. Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running Puppet from cron

You can do a lot with the setup you already have: work on your Puppet manifests as a team, communicate changes via a central Git repository, and manually apply them on a machine using the papply script.

However, you still have to log in to each machine to update the Git repo and rerun Puppet. It would be helpful to have each machine update itself and apply any changes automatically. Then, all you need to do is push a change to the repo, and it will go out to all your machines within a certain time.

The simplest way to do this is with a cron job that pulls updates from the repo at regular intervals and then runs Puppet if anything has changed. Since our papply script already pulls the latest changes, we can just schedule cron to run the papply script.

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