i'll be honest, i'm not sure exactly what i'm asking because i have no idea how the components talk to each other ... what i know is, on the "old" PE2016 servers using a custom

r10k

-alike script, some agents will occasionally fail with an error message like "unable to find module stdlib", because they happen to request a catalog while their environment is in the middle of being rebuilt. for PE2023 the "real" PE servers (being used to configure normal machines) will be using code manager so i don't expect this to ever happen, but on the "dev" PE servers (only used to prototype and test new puppet code before it gets committed and pushed to a repo) the environments are still being built by hand, because having to commit, push, and then wait for code manager to rebuild the environment, takes long enough that i lose track of what i was doing ... instead i use a script to

rsync

my changes directly to the environment, and i can go from "save changes" to "run

puppet agent -t

on a scratch machine" in about five seconds.