Puppet runs
In this section, the steps of a Puppet run and classification will be detailed. For the case of Puppet runs, a puppet apply command should be considered as the equivalent of a Puppet server and client on the same node.
When a catalog request is made by a client, four things are sent to the server:
- The node name
- The node’s certificate (not sent for
apply) - Facts
- The requested environment
The node name is the certname, and along with the requested environment is embedded in the API request made—for example, /puppet/v3/catalog/exampleserver.example.com?environment=uat.
The certificate can contain extensions, which will be turned into trusted facts.
After the server receives the agent data, it asks the configured node terminus for a node object. In the case of plain, this will be blank, or for exec or classifier, YAML output will be returned containing classes, parameters, and environment.
By default, puppet.conf sets strict...
