To run puppet manually, you should first disable the service:

    puppet apply -e 'service { "puppet": ensure => stopped, enable => false }'

To manually apply a manifest, point it at a local manifest like so:

    puppet apply /path/to/manifest.pp

-- Peter (from phone)

On Sep 5, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Stuart Cracraft <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everybody!
> 
> So for non-automated physical/manual application of single specific patterns 
> or sets of puppet patterns on an entirely manual basis, what is best practice 
> and/or where is it described?
> 
> Meaning what is the way to stop the
> puppet agent from running automatically and instead require a manual command 
> for puppet to exercise on that node. 
> 
> If it is as simple as 
> 
>  puppet apply path-to-pp
> 
> with the puppet agent up but somehow disabled for automatic operation, I can 
> work with that or equivalent. Forgive me if I have misphrased the syntax. 
> 
> I am asking you how you did that. 
> 
> This is for deployments of software
> which are manually extremely intensive. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> -- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
> "Puppet Users" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an 
> email to [email protected].
> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Puppet Users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

Reply via email to