Managing patches

Use Puppet Enterprise to configure patching node groups to meet your needs, view available operating system patches for your nodes in the console, and apply patches using the pe_patch::patch_server task.

  • Configuring patch management

    To enable patch management, create a node group for nodes you want to patch and add the node group to the PE Patch Management parent node group.

  • Patching nodes

    After configuring patch management, you can start applying patches to nodes. The patch_server task enables simply applying patches, while the group_patching plan performs health checks before and after patches are applied.