The agent does not pull modules in a master/agent setup. They are only on the master.
The catalog contains the info that the agent needs to get its managed resources into the desired state. It's not a list of modules. Rich On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM warron.french <warron.fre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Henrik, that looks like the text straight of the man page, which is what I > can't quite wrap my head around. > > > I thought the purpose of the catalog is for telling the agent what modules > it needs to pull to update its files to what is specified in the modules. > > -------------------------- > Warron French > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Henrik Lindberg < > henrik.lindb...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > >> On 18/02/16 02:10, warron.french wrote: >> >>> Can someone please clearly explain why/when to use: >>> puppet apply versus Puppet agent? >>> >>> >> puppet agent makes requests to the master - the master compiles the >> catalog. >> >> puppet apply produces the catalog locally (must have all the manifests >> etc on the agent) - a.k.a known as running masterless. >> >> - henrik >> >> -- >> >> Visit my Blog "Puppet on the Edge" >> http://puppet-on-the-edge.blogspot.se/ >> >> -- >> 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/56C53891.4010104%40puppetlabs.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQnFb0rvuXrtyAhaeC1Vb0B5vdQ9hKbBi4oNxe2CHmy%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQnFb0rvuXrtyAhaeC1Vb0B5vdQ9hKbBi4oNxe2CHmy%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPGcbtApFnmH6saptbLjekxQxkdM0Sv_OK%2BA13BeMTxjM4zZJg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
