Puppet services and tools

Puppet provides a number of core services and administrative tools to manage systems with or without a primary Puppet server, and to compile configurations for Puppet agents.

• Puppet commands

  Puppet’s command line interface (CLI) consists of a single puppet command with many subcommands.

• Running Puppet commands on Windows

  Puppet was originally designed to run on *nix systems, so its commands generally act the way *nix admins expect. Because Windows systems work differently, there are a few extra things to keep in mind when using Puppetcommands.

• Puppet agent on *nix systems

  Puppet agent is the application that manages the configurations on your nodes. It requires a Puppet primary server to fetch configuration catalogs from.

• Puppet agent on Windows

  Puppet agent is the application that manages configurations on your nodes. It requires a Puppet primary server to fetch configuration catalogs.

• Puppet apply

  Puppet apply is an application that compiles and manages configurations on nodes. It acts like a self-contained combination of the Puppet primary server and Puppet agent applications.

• Puppet device

  With Puppet device, you can manage network devices, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and Internet of Things (IOT) devices, without installing a Puppet agent on them. Devices that cannot run Puppet applications require a Puppet agent to act as a proxy. The proxy manages certificates, collects facts, retrieves and applies catalogs, and stores reports on behalf of a device.