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Directory environments in Puppet

Environments are individual groups of Puppet agents each environment have there own completely different manifests and module-paths. This basically is useful for testing changes to our Puppet code before implementing them on production machines. There are two types of implementation of environments structure in Puppet one if directory based and another is config file based here we will see bit of an insight about directory based. As usual for more information about this you can visit puppetlabs official website. On the master node: Append following details in puppet.conf which is placed under /etc/puppet or /etc/puppetlabs/puppet:     Under [main] section add a variable called confdir with value as /etc/puppet or /etc/puppetlabs/puppet     confdir=/etc/puppet Then add information regarding environments/manifests and modulepath in it.      #environments     environmentpath = $confdir/environments  ...
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puppet agent???

*Agent sub-command in Puppet "puppet agent"* The puppet agent subcommand is a powerful tool which fetches the configurations from a master server and get that applied to the agent node. It has basically two modes: 1. Daemonize and fetch configurations every half-hour (this is by default and can be changed). 2. Run once and quit It is the main puppet client. Basically its purpose is to retrieve the local machine's configuration from a remote server[the master] and apply it to the agent node. In order to successfully communicate with the remote server, the client must have a certificate signed by a certificate authority provided by the puppet master. The client will connect and request a signed certificate unless and until the puppet master sign's the certificate the agent node cannot communicate with the puppet master. Once the client has a signed certificate, it will retrieve its configuration from the puppet master and apply it on the agent node. Now sup...
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