Managing systems with Puppet agent
In a normal Puppet configuration, every node periodically does configuration runs to revert unwanted changes and to pick up recent updates.
On Windows nodes, there are two main ways to do this:
Run Puppet as a service.
The easiest method. The Puppet agent service does configuration runs
at a set interval, which can be configured.
Run Puppet agent on
demand.
You can also use Bolt or deployMCollective to run on demand on many nodes.
Because the Windows version of the Puppet agent service is much simpler than the *nix version, there’s no real performance to be gained by running Puppet as a scheduled task. If you want scheduled configuration runs, use the Windows service.