- New: Module depreciation check causes increase in deployment time
-
New: Timeouts when using
--wait
with large deployments or geographically dispersed compile masters - r10k with the Rugged provider can develop a bloated cache
- Code Manager and r10k do not identify the default branch for module repositories
- Code Manager webhook does not delete branches as expected
- After an error during the initial run of file sync, Puppet Server won’t start
- Puppet Server crashes if file sync cannot write to the live code directory
- Code Manager webhook authentication for GitLab
-
File sync error causes
pe-puppetserver
service to shut down due to incorrectpe-puppet
owner and group permissions
This page lists known issues for Code Manager, r10k, and file sync in Puppet Enterprise.
New: Module depreciation check causes increase in deployment time
In r10k versions 2.5.3 and 2.5.4, a module depreciation check is performed on every redeploy, causing a significant increase in deployment time. To work around this issue, upgrade to r10k version 2.5.5 by running the following commands:
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem uninstall r10k
/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install r10k -v 2.5.5
New: Timeouts when using --wait
with large deployments or geographically dispersed compile masters
As the --wait
flag now deploys code to all compile masters before returning results, some Puppet Enterprise deployments with a large node count or compile masters spread across a large geographic area might experience a timeout. Work around this issue by adjusting the timeouts_sync
parameter.
r10k with the Rugged provider can develop a bloated cache
If you use the Rugged provider for r10k, repository pruning is not supported. This means that if you use many short-lived branches, over time the local r10k cache can become bloated and take up significant disk space.
If you encounter this issue, run git-gc
periodically on any cached repo that is using a large amount of disk space in the cachedir. Alternately, use the shellgit provider, which automatically garbage collects the repos according to the normal Git CLI rules.
Code Manager and r10k do not identify the default branch for module repositories
When you use Code Manager or r10k to deploy modules from a Git source, the default branch of the source repository is always assumed to be ‘master’. If the module repository uses a default branch that is not ‘master’, this causes an error. To work around this issue, specify the default branch with the ref:
key in your Puppetfile.
Code Manager webhook does not delete branches as expected
If you delete a branch from your control repository, the Code Manager webhook deployment does not immediately delete that environment from the Puppet master’s staging or live code directories.
Code Manager will delete the environment when it deploys changes to any other environment. Alternately, to delete the environment immediately, deploy all environments manually:
puppet code deploy --all --wait
After an error during the initial run of file sync, Puppet Server won’t start
The first time you run Code Manager and file sync on a master, an error can occur that prevents Puppet Server from starting. To work around this issue:
- Stop the pe-puppetserver service.
- Locate the data-dir variable in
/etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/conf.d/file-sync.conf
. - Remove the directory.
- Start the pe-puppetserver service.
Puppet Server crashes if file sync cannot write to the live code directory
If the live code directory contains content that file sync didn’t expect to find there (for example, someone has made changes directly to the live code directory), Puppet Server crashes.
The following error appears in the puppetserver.log
2016-05-05 11:57:06,042 ERROR [clojure-agent-send-off-pool-0] [p.e.s.f.file-sync-client-core] Fatal error during file sync, requesting shutdown.
org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.JGitInternalException: Could not delete file /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/development
at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CleanCommand.call(CleanCommand.java:138) ~[puppet-server-release.jar:na]
To recover from this error:
- Delete the environments in code dir:
find /etc/puppetlabs/code -mindepth 1 -delete
. - Start the
pe-puppetserver
service:puppet resource service pe-puppetserver ensure=running
- Trigger a Code Manager run by your usual method.
Code Manager webhook authentication for GitLab
Prior to GitLab 8.5.0, GitLab had a character limit on webhooks, so the entire Code Manager authentication token could not be passed into GitLab webhooks. If you are using a GitLab version earlier that 8.5.0, either upgrade to the current GitLab version or turn off Code Manager webhook authentication via Hiera with the authenticate_webhook
parameter.
File sync error causes pe-puppetserver
service to shut down due to incorrect pe-puppet
owner and group permissions
During an r10k deployment, if the pe-puppet
user does not have permissions to delete files in the environment directory, a file sync error will cause the pe-puppetserver
service to shut down during deployment.
This issue can be fixed by setting permissions in the environment directory to owner pe-puppet
and group pe-puppet
with the following command: chown -R pe-puppet:pe-puppet /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments
.