Setting up the orchestrator workflow
The orchestrator—used alongside other Puppet Enterprise (PE) tools, such as Code Manager—allows you to control when and how infrastructure changes are made before they reach your production environment.
This recommended workflow gives you precise control over rolling out changes, such as deploying new Puppet code or updating data and classifying nodes. In this workflow, you configure your agents to use cached catalogs during scheduled runs, and you use orchestrator jobs to send new catalogs only when you're ready. Scheduled runs continue to enforce the desired state from the last orchestration job until you send another new catalog.
This workflow assumes you’re familiar with Code Manager. It involves making changes to your control repo, such as adding or updating modules, editing manifests, or changing your Hiera data.
This workflow requires running deploy actions from the Code Manager command line tool and the orchestrator, so make sure you have access to a host with PE client tools installed.
