are you actually installing puppet-agent?

is that maybe coming from the distro repo and not from the Puppet own repos? 🙂

because the Puppet package is named puppet. not puppet-agent

Nope. That's the weird thing. It's definitely the proper package and the expected version of it. I can also see

virt-what

in

/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin

but if I run facter with debug enabled, it's showing a message, that

virt-what

isn't available ("No such file or directory"). That's on Ubuntu Jammy for me. Maybe something's wrong with the

PATH

I'll continue debugging this. Thanks for the hint!

did you try

puppet facts show

instead of calling facter directly? that's deprecated

Yeah, same behavior.

mhm

puppet 7 or 8?

I've stumbled upon this, because I've expected some changes, which should be applied on virtual machines only and this wasn't happening. I first thought, that some of my facts are now broken, but as there's a constraint in those facts... Puppet 7

meeting 🧑‍🏫 Bolt is about to start up in #CFD8Z9A4T

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Hey all. Is there a channel where I can ask some questions regarding Puppet, as I am unfamiliar with it and haven’t been able to locate an answer. Or can I just post them here? Wasn’t sure if there was dedicated channel for newbie questions. Thanks!

This is the right place.

Let er’ rip!

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if you want to orchestrate/push things

of course puppet can execute scripts for you or configure a systemd timer to execute it, bu the puppet agent works on a pull model, not push

Well it seems like Workspace One handles the pushing of the puppet manifests, but I’m more wondering as to how I can push a script that will return data via Puppet. From my understanding that isn’t possible with Puppet. Workspace One provides the ability to push scripts via sensors and I think that’s closer to what he is looking for, but he is pretty adamant that Puppet can do it.

you can execute scripts in puppet. and puppet can manage them. and it can check if the script was successful or not. but you cannot easily parse the script output. that's a job for bolt or a custom type/provider

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Yep, I’ve gone through those, and unfortunately the VMware support team just directs me to Puppet for more support. This is my first foray into Puppet so it’s been a learning experience for sure.

I've no clue what workspace one does but I'm happy to help replacing it with open source puppet 😄

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perfect job for bolt!

I wouldn’t be surprised if one day VMWare will release another major version with SaltStack instead.. they bought it few years ago IIRC and they’re using it in some solutions already.. so yes, I’d go with Bolt instead if no one would like to rewrite the config later 🙂

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Hi! I’ve been working on a new module to build and bootstrap new VMs directly from the PE console. I just released the first version with basic support for Azure and EC2. It’s not ready for primetime yet, but if you think this would be useful, I would be interested in your feedback. Perhaps you can take a look at the README or and let me know what kinds of features you would need or want to make it viable. I may have some time to work on them. Thanks! 🙂