Configuration Reference

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Configuration Settings

• Each of these settings can be specified in puppet.conf or on the command line.
• When using boolean settings on the command line, use --setting and --no-setting instead of --setting (true|false).
• Settings can be interpolated as $variables in other settings; $environment is special, in that puppet master will interpolate each agent node’s environment instead of its own.
• Multiple values should be specified as comma-separated lists; multiple directories should be separated with the system path separator (usually a colon).
• Settings that represent time intervals should be specified in duration format: an integer immediately followed by one of the units ‘y’ (years of 365 days), ‘d’ (days), ‘h’ (hours), ‘m’ (minutes), or ‘s’ (seconds). The unit cannot be combined with other units, and defaults to seconds when omitted. Examples are ‘3600’ which is equivalent to ‘1h’ (one hour), and ‘1825d’ which is equivalent to ‘5y’ (5 years).
• Settings that take a single file or directory can optionally set the owner, group, and mode for their value: rundir = $vardir/run { owner = puppet, group = puppet, mode = 644 }
• The Puppet executables will ignore any setting that isn’t relevant to their function.

See the configuration guide for more details.

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agent_catalog_run_lockfile

A lock file to indicate that a puppet agent catalog run is currently in progress. The file contains the pid of the process that holds the lock on the catalog run.

• Default: $statedir/agent_catalog_run.lock

agent_disabled_lockfile

A lock file to indicate that puppet agent runs have been administratively disabled. File contains a JSON object with state information.

• Default: $statedir/agent_disabled.lock

allow_duplicate_certs

Whether to allow a new certificate request to overwrite an existing certificate.

• Default: false

allow_variables_with_dashes

Permit hyphens (-) in variable names and issue deprecation warnings about them. This setting should always be false; setting it to true will cause subtle and wide-ranging bugs. It will be removed in a future version.

Hyphenated variables caused major problems in the language, but were allowed between Puppet 2.7.3 and 2.7.14. If you used them during this window, we apologize for the inconvenience — you can temporarily set this to true in order to upgrade, and can rename your variables at your leisure. Please revert it to false after you have renamed all affected variables.

• Default: false

always_cache_features

Affects how we cache attempts to load Puppet ‘features’. If false, then calls to Puppet.features.<feature>? will always attempt to load the feature (which can be an expensive operation) unless it has already been loaded successfully. This makes it possible for a single agent run to, e.g., install a package that provides the underlying capabilities for a feature, and then later load that feature during the same run (even if the feature had been tested earlier and had not been available).

If this setting is set to true, then features will only be checked once, and if they are not available, the negative result is cached and returned for all subsequent attempts to load the feature. This behavior is almost always appropriate for the server, and can result in a significant performance improvement for features that are checked frequently.

• Default: false

archive_file_server

During an inspect run, the file bucket server to archive files to if archive_files is set.

• Default: $server

archive_files

During an inspect run, whether to archive files whose contents are audited to a file bucket.

• Default: false

async_storeconfigs

Whether to use a queueing system to provide asynchronous database integration. Requires that puppet queue be running.

• Default: false

autoflush

Whether log files should always flush to disk.

• Default: true

autosign

Whether (and how) to autosign certificate requests. This setting is only relevant on a puppet master acting as a certificate authority (CA).

Valid values are true (autosigns all certificate requests; not recommended), false (disables autosigning certificates), or the absolute path to a file.

The file specified in this setting may be either a configuration file or a custom policy executable. Puppet will automatically determine what it is: If the Puppet user (see the user setting) can execute the file, it will be treated as a policy executable; otherwise, it will be treated as a config file.

If a custom policy executable is configured, the CA puppet master will run it every time it receives a CSR. The executable will be passed the subject CN of the request as a command line argument, and the contents of the CSR in PEM format on stdin. It should exit with a status of 0 if the cert should be autosigned and non-zero if the cert should not be autosigned.

If a certificate request is not autosigned, it will persist for review. An admin user can use the puppet cert sign command to manually sign it, or can delete the request.

For info on autosign configuration files, see the guide to Puppet’s config files.

• Default: $confdir/autosign.conf

basemodulepath

The search path for global modules. Should be specified as a list of directories separated by the system path separator character. (The POSIX path separator is ‘:’, and the Windows path separator is ‘;’.)

If you are using directory environments, these are the modules that will be used by all environments. Note that the modules directory of the active environment will have priority over any global directories. For more info, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/environments.html

This setting also provides the default value for the deprecated modulepath setting, which is used when directory environments are disabled.

• Default: $confdir/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules

bindaddress

The address a listening server should bind to.

• Default: 0.0.0.0

binder

Turns the binding system on or off. This includes bindings in modules. The binding system aggregates data from modules and other locations and makes them available for lookup. The binding system is experimental and any or all of it may change.

• Default: false

binder_config

The binder configuration file. Puppet reads this file on each request to configure the bindings system. If set to nil (the default), a $confdir/binder_config.yaml is optionally loaded. If it does not exists, a default configuration is used. If the setting :binding_config is specified, it must reference a valid and existing yaml file.

• Default:

bucketdir

Where FileBucket files are stored.

• Default: $vardir/bucket

ca

Whether the master should function as a certificate authority.

• Default: true

ca_name

The name to use the Certificate Authority certificate.

• Default: Puppet CA: $certname

ca_port

The port to use for the certificate authority.

• Default: $masterport

ca_server

The server to use for certificate authority requests. It’s a separate server because it cannot and does not need to horizontally scale.

• Default: $server

ca_ttl

The default TTL for new certificates. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 5y

cacert

The CA certificate.

• Default: $cadir/ca_crt.pem

cacrl

The certificate revocation list (CRL) for the CA. Will be used if present but otherwise ignored.

• Default: $cadir/ca_crl.pem

cadir

The root directory for the certificate authority.

• Default: $ssldir/ca

cakey

The CA private key.

• Default: $cadir/ca_key.pem

capass

Where the CA stores the password for the private key.

• Default: $caprivatedir/ca.pass

caprivatedir

Where the CA stores private certificate information.

• Default: $cadir/private

capub

The CA public key.

• Default: $cadir/ca_pub.pem

catalog_cache_terminus

How to store cached catalogs. Valid values are ‘json’, ‘msgpack’ and ‘yaml’. The agent application defaults to ‘json’.

• Default:

catalog_format

(Deprecated for ‘preferred_serialization_format’) What format to use to dump the catalog. Only supports ‘marshal’ and ‘yaml’. Only matters on the client, since it asks the server for a specific format.

catalog_terminus

Where to get node catalogs. This is useful to change if, for instance, you’d like to pre-compile catalogs and store them in memcached or some other easily-accessed store.

• Default: compiler

cert_inventory

The inventory file. This is a text file to which the CA writes a complete listing of all certificates.

• Default: $cadir/inventory.txt

certdir

The certificate directory.

• Default: $ssldir/certs

certdnsnames

The certdnsnames setting is no longer functional, after CVE-2011-3872. We ignore the value completely.

For your own certificate request you can set dns_alt_names in the configuration and it will apply locally. There is no configuration option to set DNS alt names, or any other subjectAltName value, for another nodes certificate.

Alternately you can use the --dns_alt_names command line option to set the labels added while generating your own CSR.

certificate_expire_warning

The window of time leading up to a certificate’s expiration that a notification will be logged. This applies to CA, master, and agent certificates. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 60d

certificate_revocation

Whether certificate revocation should be supported by downloading a Certificate Revocation List (CRL) to all clients. If enabled, CA chaining will almost definitely not work.

• Default: true

certname

The name to use when handling certificates. When a node requests a certificate from the CA puppet master, it uses the value of the certname setting as its requested Subject CN.

This is the name used when managing a node’s permissions in auth.conf. In most cases, it is also used as the node’s name when matching node definitions and requesting data from an ENC. (This can be changed with the node_name_value and node_name_fact settings, although you should only do so if you have a compelling reason.)

A node’s certname is available in Puppet manifests as $trusted['certname']. (See Facts and Built-In Variables for more details.)

• For best compatibility, you should limit the value of certname to only use letters, numbers, periods, underscores, and dashes. (That is, it should match /A[a-z0-9._-]+Z/.)
• The special value ca is reserved, and can’t be used as the certname for a normal node.

Defaults to the node’s fully qualified domain name.

• Default: (the system’s fully qualified domain name)

cfacter

Whether or not to use the native facter (cfacter) implementation instead of the Ruby one (facter). Defaults to false.

• Default: false

classfile

The file in which puppet agent stores a list of the classes associated with the retrieved configuration. Can be loaded in the separate puppet executable using the --loadclasses option.

• Default: $statedir/classes.txt

client_datadir

The directory in which serialized data is stored on the client.

• Default: $vardir/client_data

clientbucketdir

Where FileBucket files are stored locally.

• Default: $vardir/clientbucket

clientyamldir

The directory in which client-side YAML data is stored.

• Default: $vardir/client_yaml

code

Code to parse directly. This is essentially only used by puppet, and should only be set if you’re writing your own Puppet executable.

color

Whether to use colors when logging to the console. Valid values are ansi (equivalent to true), html, and false, which produces no color. Defaults to false on Windows, as its console does not support ansi colors.

• Default: ansi

confdir

The main Puppet configuration directory. The default for this setting is calculated based on the user. If the process is running as root or the user that Puppet is supposed to run as, it defaults to a system directory, but if it’s running as any other user, it defaults to being in the user’s home directory.

• Default: /etc/puppet

config

The configuration file for the current puppet application.

• Default: $confdir/${config_file_name}

config_file_name

The name of the puppet config file.

• Default: puppet.conf

config_version

How to determine the configuration version. By default, it will be the time that the configuration is parsed, but you can provide a shell script to override how the version is determined. The output of this script will be added to every log message in the reports, allowing you to correlate changes on your hosts to the source version on the server.

Setting a global value for config_version in puppet.conf is deprecated. Please set a per-environment value in environment.conf instead. For more info, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/environments.html

configprint

Print the value of a specific configuration setting. If the name of a setting is provided for this, then the value is printed and puppet exits. Comma-separate multiple values. For a list of all values, specify ‘all’.

configtimeout

How long the client should wait for the configuration to be retrieved before considering it a failure. This can help reduce flapping if too many clients contact the server at one time. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 2m

couchdb_url

The url where the puppet couchdb database will be created. Only used when facts_terminus is set to couch.

• Default: http://127.0.0.1:5984/puppet

csr_attributes

An optional file containing custom attributes to add to certificate signing requests (CSRs). You should ensure that this file does not exist on your CA puppet master; if it does, unwanted certificate extensions may leak into certificates created with the puppet cert generate command.

If present, this file must be a YAML hash containing a custom_attributes key and/or an extension_requests key. The value of each key must be a hash, where each key is a valid OID and each value is an object that can be cast to a string.

Custom attributes can be used by the CA when deciding whether to sign the certificate, but are then discarded. Attribute OIDs can be any OID value except the standard CSR attributes (i.e. attributes described in RFC 2985 section 5.4). This is useful for embedding a pre-shared key for autosigning policy executables (see the autosign setting), often by using the 1.2.840.113549.1.9.7 (“challenge password”) OID.

Extension requests will be permanently embedded in the final certificate. Extension OIDs must be in the “ppRegCertExt” (1.3.6.1.4.1.34380.1.1) or “ppPrivCertExt” (1.3.6.1.4.1.34380.1.2) OID arcs. The ppRegCertExt arc is reserved for four of the most common pieces of data to embed: pp_uuid (.1), pp_instance_id (.2), pp_image_name (.3), and pp_preshared_key (.4) — in the YAML file, these can be referred to by their short descriptive names instead of their full OID. The ppPrivCertExt arc is unregulated, and can be used for site-specific extensions.

• Default: $confdir/csr_attributes.yaml

csrdir

Where the CA stores certificate requests

• Default: $cadir/requests

daemonize

Whether to send the process into the background. This defaults to true on POSIX systems, and to false on Windows (where Puppet currently cannot daemonize).

• Default: true

data_binding_terminus

Where to retrive information about data.

• Default: hiera

dbadapter

The type of database to use. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: sqlite3

dbconnections

The number of database connections for networked databases. Will be ignored unless the value is a positive integer. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

dblocation

The sqlite database file. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: $statedir/clientconfigs.sqlite3

dbmigrate

Whether to automatically migrate the database. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: false

dbname

The name of the database to use. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: puppet

dbpassword

The database password for caching. Only used when networked databases are used. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: puppet

dbport

The database password for caching. Only used when networked databases are used. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

dbserver

The database server for caching. Only used when networked databases are used.

• Default: localhost

dbsocket

The database socket location. Only used when networked databases are used. Will be ignored if the value is an empty string. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

dbuser

The database user for caching. Only used when networked databases are used. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: puppet

default_file_terminus

The default source for files if no server is given in a uri, e.g. puppet:///file. The default of rest causes the file to be retrieved using the server setting. When running apply the default is file_server, causing requests to be filled locally.

• Default: rest

default_manifest

The default main manifest for directory environments. Any environment that doesn’t set the manifest setting in its environment.conf file will use this manifest.

This setting’s value can be an absolute or relative path. An absolute path will make all environments default to the same main manifest; a relative path will allow each environment to use its own manifest, and Puppet will resolve the path relative to each environment’s main directory.

In either case, the path can point to a single file or to a directory of manifests to be evaluated in alphabetical order.

• Default: ./manifests

default_schedules

Boolean; whether to generate the default schedule resources. Setting this to false is useful for keeping external report processors clean of skipped schedule resources.

• Default: true

deviceconfig

Path to the device config file for puppet device.

• Default: $confdir/device.conf

devicedir

The root directory of devices’ $vardir.

• Default: $vardir/devices

diff

Which diff command to use when printing differences between files. This setting has no default value on Windows, as standard diff is not available, but Puppet can use many third-party diff tools.

• Default: diff

diff_args

Which arguments to pass to the diff command when printing differences between files. The command to use can be chosen with the diff setting.

• Default: -u

digest_algorithm

Which digest algorithm to use for file resources and the filebucket. Valid values are md5, sha256. Default is md5.

• Default: md5

disable_per_environment_manifest

Whether to disallow an environment-specific main manifest. When set to true, Puppet will use the manifest specified in the default_manifest setting for all environments. If an environment specifies a different main manifest in its environment.conf file, catalog requests for that environment will fail with an error.

This setting requires default_manifest to be set to an absolute path.

• Default: false

disable_warnings

A comma-separated list of warning types to suppress. If large numbers of warnings are making Puppet’s logs too large or difficult to use, you can temporarily silence them with this setting.

If you are preparing to upgrade Puppet to a new major version, you should re-enable all warnings for a while.

Valid values for this setting are:

• deprecations — disables deprecation warnings.

• Default: []

dns_alt_names

The comma-separated list of alternative DNS names to use for the local host.

When the node generates a CSR for itself, these are added to the request as the desired subjectAltName in the certificate: additional DNS labels that the certificate is also valid answering as.

This is generally required if you use a non-hostname certname, or if you want to use puppet kick or puppet resource -H and the primary certname does not match the DNS name you use to communicate with the host.

This is unnecessary for agents, unless you intend to use them as a server for puppet kick or remote puppet resource management.

It is rarely necessary for servers; it is usually helpful only if you need to have a pool of multiple load balanced masters, or for the same master to respond on two physically separate networks under different names.

document_all

Whether to document all resources when using puppet doc to generate manifest documentation.

• Default: false

dynamicfacts

(Deprecated) Facts that are dynamic; these facts will be ignored when deciding whether changed facts should result in a recompile. Multiple facts should be comma-separated.

• Default: memorysize,memoryfree,swapsize,swapfree

environment

The environment Puppet is running in. For clients (e.g., puppet agent) this determines the environment itself, which is used to find modules and much more. For servers (i.e., puppet master) this provides the default environment for nodes we know nothing about.

• Default: production

environment_timeout

How long the Puppet master should cache data it loads from an environment. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y). A value of 0 will disable caching. This setting can also be set to unlimited, which will cache environments until the master is restarted or told to refresh the cache.

You should change this setting once your Puppet deployment is doing non-trivial work. We chose the default value of 0 because it lets new users update their code without any extra steps, but it lowers the performance of your Puppet master.

We recommend setting this to unlimited and explicitly refreshing your Puppet master as part of your code deployment process.

• With Puppet Server, you should refresh environments by calling the environment-cache API endpoint. See the docs for the Puppet Server administrative API.
• With a Rack Puppet master, you should restart the web server or the application server. Passenger lets you touch a restart.txt file to refresh an application without restarting Apache; see the Passenger docs for details.

We don’t recommend using any value other than 0 or unlimited, since most Puppet masters use a pool of Ruby interpreters which all have their own cache timers. When these timers drift out of sync, agents can be served inconsistent catalogs.

• Default: 0

environmentpath

A search path for directory environments, as a list of directories separated by the system path separator character. (The POSIX path separator is ‘:’, and the Windows path separator is ‘;’.)

This setting must have a value set to enable directory environments. The recommended value is $confdir/environments. For more details, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/environments.html

evaltrace

Whether each resource should log when it is being evaluated. This allows you to interactively see exactly what is being done.

• Default: false

external_nodes

An external command that can produce node information. The command’s output must be a YAML dump of a hash, and that hash must have a classes key and/or a parameters key, where classes is an array or hash and parameters is a hash. For unknown nodes, the command should exit with a non-zero exit code.

This command makes it straightforward to store your node mapping information in other data sources like databases.

• Default: none

factpath

Where Puppet should look for facts. Multiple directories should be separated by the system path separator character. (The POSIX path separator is ‘:’, and the Windows path separator is ‘;’.)

• Default: $vardir/lib/facter:$vardir/facts

facts_terminus

The node facts terminus.

• Default: facter

fileserverconfig

Where the fileserver configuration is stored.

• Default: $confdir/fileserver.conf

filetimeout

The minimum time to wait between checking for updates in configuration files. This timeout determines how quickly Puppet checks whether a file (such as manifests or templates) has changed on disk. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 15s

forge_authorization

The authorization key to connect to the Puppet Forge. Leave blank for unauthorized or license based connections

• Default:

freeze_main

Freezes the ‘main’ class, disallowing any code to be added to it. This essentially means that you can’t have any code outside of a node, class, or definition other than in the site manifest.

• Default: false

genconfig

When true, causes Puppet applications to print an example config file to stdout and exit. The example will include descriptions of each setting, and the current (or default) value of each setting, incorporating any settings overridden on the CLI (with the exception of genconfig itself). This setting only makes sense when specified on the command line as --genconfig.

• Default: false

genmanifest

Whether to just print a manifest to stdout and exit. Only makes sense when specified on the command line as --genmanifest. Takes into account arguments specified on the CLI.

• Default: false

graph

Whether to create dot graph files for the different configuration graphs. These dot files can be interpreted by tools like OmniGraffle or dot (which is part of ImageMagick).

• Default: false

graphdir

Where to store dot-outputted graphs.

• Default: $statedir/graphs

group

The group puppet master should run as.

• Default: puppet

hiera_config

The hiera configuration file. Puppet only reads this file on startup, so you must restart the puppet master every time you edit it.

• Default: $confdir/hiera.yaml

hostcert

Where individual hosts store and look for their certificates.

• Default: $certdir/$certname.pem

hostcrl

Where the host’s certificate revocation list can be found. This is distinct from the certificate authority’s CRL.

• Default: $ssldir/crl.pem

hostcsr

Where individual hosts store and look for their certificate requests.

• Default: $ssldir/csr_$certname.pem

hostprivkey

Where individual hosts store and look for their private key.

• Default: $privatekeydir/$certname.pem

hostpubkey

Where individual hosts store and look for their public key.

• Default: $publickeydir/$certname.pem

http_compression

Allow http compression in REST communication with the master. This setting might improve performance for agent -> master communications over slow WANs. Your puppet master needs to support compression (usually by activating some settings in a reverse-proxy in front of the puppet master, which rules out webrick). It is harmless to activate this settings if your master doesn’t support compression, but if it supports it, this setting might reduce performance on high-speed LANs.

• Default: false

http_debug

Whether to write HTTP request and responses to stderr. This should never be used in a production environment.

• Default: false

http_keepalive_timeout

The maximum amount of time a persistent HTTP connection can remain idle in the connection pool, before it is closed. This timeout should be shorter than the keepalive timeout used on the HTTP server, e.g. Apache KeepAliveTimeout directive. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 4s

http_proxy_host

The HTTP proxy host to use for outgoing connections. Note: You may need to use a FQDN for the server hostname when using a proxy. Environment variable http_proxy or HTTP_PROXY will override this value

• Default: none

http_proxy_password

The password for the user of an authenticated HTTP proxy. Requires the http_proxy_user setting.

Note that passwords must be valid when used as part of a URL. If a password contains any characters with special meanings in URLs (as specified by RFC 3986 section 2.2), they must be URL-encoded. (For example, # would become %23.)

• Default: none

http_proxy_port

The HTTP proxy port to use for outgoing connections

• Default: 3128

http_proxy_user

The user name for an authenticated HTTP proxy. Requires the http_proxy_host setting.

• Default: none

httplog

Where the puppet agent web server logs.

• Default: $logdir/http.log

ignorecache

Ignore cache and always recompile the configuration. This is useful for testing new configurations, where the local cache may in fact be stale even if the timestamps are up to date - if the facts change or if the server changes.

• Default: false

ignoreimport

If true, allows the parser to continue without requiring all files referenced with import statements to exist. This setting was primarily designed for use with commit hooks for parse-checking.

• Default: false

ignoremissingtypes

Skip searching for classes and definitions that were missing during a prior compilation. The list of missing objects is maintained per-environment and persists until the environment is cleared or the master is restarted.

• Default: false

ignoreschedules

Boolean; whether puppet agent should ignore schedules. This is useful for initial puppet agent runs.

• Default: false

immutable_node_data

When true, also prevents $trusted and $facts from being overridden in any scope

• Default: $trusted_node_data

inventory_port

The port to communicate with the inventory_server.

• Default: $masterport

inventory_server

The server to send facts to.

• Default: $server

inventory_terminus

Should usually be the same as the facts terminus

• Default: $facts_terminus

keylength

The bit length of keys.

• Default: 4096

lastrunfile

Where puppet agent stores the last run report summary in yaml format.

• Default: $statedir/last_run_summary.yaml

lastrunreport

Where puppet agent stores the last run report in yaml format.

• Default: $statedir/last_run_report.yaml

ldapattrs

The LDAP attributes to include when querying LDAP for nodes. All returned attributes are set as variables in the top-level scope. Multiple values should be comma-separated. The value ‘all’ returns all attributes.

• Default: all

ldapbase

The search base for LDAP searches. It’s impossible to provide a meaningful default here, although the LDAP libraries might have one already set. Generally, it should be the ‘ou=Hosts’ branch under your main directory.

ldapclassattrs

The LDAP attributes to use to define Puppet classes. Values should be comma-separated.

• Default: puppetclass

ldapparentattr

The attribute to use to define the parent node.

• Default: parentnode

ldappassword

The password to use to connect to LDAP.

ldapport

The LDAP port. Only used if node_terminus is set to ldap.

• Default: 389

ldapserver

The LDAP server. Only used if node_terminus is set to ldap.

• Default: ldap

ldapssl

Whether SSL should be used when searching for nodes. Defaults to false because SSL usually requires certificates to be set up on the client side.

• Default: false

ldapstackedattrs

The LDAP attributes that should be stacked to arrays by adding the values in all hierarchy elements of the tree. Values should be comma-separated.

• Default: puppetvar

ldapstring

The search string used to find an LDAP node.

• Default: (&(objectclass=puppetClient)(cn=%s))

ldaptls

Whether TLS should be used when searching for nodes. Defaults to false because TLS usually requires certificates to be set up on the client side.

• Default: false

ldapuser

The user to use to connect to LDAP. Must be specified as a full DN.

legacy_query_parameter_serialization

The serialization format to use when sending file_metadata query parameters. Older versions of puppet master expect certain query parameters to be serialized as yaml, which is deprecated.

This should almost always be false. It can be temporarily set to true to let agents using this Puppet version connect to a puppet master running Puppet 3.0.0 through 3.2.x.

Note that this is set to true automatically if the agent detects an older master, so should never need to be set explicitly.

• Default: false

libdir

An extra search path for Puppet. This is only useful for those files that Puppet will load on demand, and is only guaranteed to work for those cases. In fact, the autoload mechanism is responsible for making sure this directory is in Ruby’s search path

• Default: $vardir/lib

listen

Whether puppet agent should listen for connections. If this is true, then puppet agent will accept incoming REST API requests, subject to the default ACLs and the ACLs set in the rest_authconfig file. Puppet agent can respond usefully to requests on the run, facts, certificate, and resource endpoints.

• Default: false

localcacert

Where each client stores the CA certificate.

• Default: $certdir/ca.pem

localconfig

Where puppet agent caches the local configuration. An extension indicating the cache format is added automatically.

• Default: $statedir/localconfig

log_level

Default logging level for messages from Puppet. Allowed values are:

• debug
• info
• notice
• warning
• err
• alert
• emerg

• crit

• Default: notice

logdir

The directory in which to store log files

• Default:

manage_internal_file_permissions

Whether Puppet should manage the owner, group, and mode of files it uses internally

• Default: true

manifest

The entry-point manifest for puppet master. This can be one file or a directory of manifests to be evaluated in alphabetical order. Puppet manages this path as a directory if one exists or if the path ends with a / or .

Setting a global value for manifest in puppet.conf is deprecated. Please use directory environments instead. If you need to use something other than the environment’s manifests directory as the main manifest, you can set manifest in environment.conf. For more info, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/environments.html

• Default: $manifestdir/site.pp

manifestdir

Used to build the default value of the manifest setting. Has no other purpose.

This setting is deprecated.

• Default: $confdir/manifests

masterhttplog

Where the puppet master web server saves its access log. This is only used when running a WEBrick puppet master. When puppet master is running under a Rack server like Passenger, that web server will have its own logging behavior.

• Default: $logdir/masterhttp.log

masterlog

This file is literally never used, although Puppet may create it as an empty file. For more context, see the puppetdlog setting and puppet master’s --logdest command line option.

This setting is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Puppet.

• Default: $logdir/puppetmaster.log

masterport

The port for puppet master traffic. For puppet master, this is the port to listen on; for puppet agent, this is the port to make requests on. Both applications use this setting to get the port.

• Default: 8140

max_deprecations

Sets the max number of logged/displayed parser validation deprecation warnings in case multiple deprecation warnings have been detected. A value of 0 blocks the logging of deprecation warnings. The count is per manifest.

• Default: 10

max_errors

Sets the max number of logged/displayed parser validation errors in case multiple errors have been detected. A value of 0 is the same as a value of 1; a minimum of one error is always raised. The count is per manifest.

• Default: 10

max_warnings

Sets the max number of logged/displayed parser validation warnings in case multiple warnings have been detected. A value of 0 blocks logging of warnings. The count is per manifest.

• Default: 10

maximum_uid

The maximum allowed UID. Some platforms use negative UIDs but then ship with tools that do not know how to handle signed ints, so the UIDs show up as huge numbers that can then not be fed back into the system. This is a hackish way to fail in a slightly more useful way when that happens.

• Default: 4294967290

mkusers

Whether to create the necessary user and group that puppet agent will run as.

• Default: false

module_groups

Extra module groups to request from the Puppet Forge

• Default:

module_repository

The module repository

• Default: https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com

module_skeleton_dir

The directory which the skeleton for module tool generate is stored.

• Default: $module_working_dir/skeleton

module_working_dir

The directory into which module tool data is stored

• Default: $vardir/puppet-module

modulepath

The search path for modules, as a list of directories separated by the system path separator character. (The POSIX path separator is ‘:’, and the Windows path separator is ‘;’.)

Setting a global value for modulepath in puppet.conf is deprecated. Please use directory environments instead. If you need to use something other than the default modulepath of <ACTIVE ENVIRONMENT'S MODULES DIR>:$basemodulepath, you can set modulepath in environment.conf. For more info, see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/environments.html

• Default: $basemodulepath

name

The name of the application, if we are running as one. The default is essentially $0 without the path or .rb.

• Default:

node_cache_terminus

How to store cached nodes. Valid values are (none), ‘json’, ‘msgpack’, ‘yaml’ or write only yaml (‘write_only_yaml’). The master application defaults to ‘write_only_yaml’, all others to none.

• Default:

node_name

How the puppet master determines the client’s identity and sets the ‘hostname’, ‘fqdn’ and ‘domain’ facts for use in the manifest, in particular for determining which ‘node’ statement applies to the client. Possible values are ‘cert’ (use the subject’s CN in the client’s certificate) and ‘facter’ (use the hostname that the client reported in its facts)

• Default: cert

node_name_fact

The fact name used to determine the node name used for all requests the agent makes to the master. WARNING: This setting is mutually exclusive with node_name_value. Changing this setting also requires changes to the default auth.conf configuration on the Puppet Master. Please see http://links.puppetlabs.com/node_name_fact for more information.

node_name_value

The explicit value used for the node name for all requests the agent makes to the master. WARNING: This setting is mutually exclusive with node_name_fact. Changing this setting also requires changes to the default auth.conf configuration on the Puppet Master. Please see http://links.puppetlabs.com/node_name_value for more information.

• Default: $certname

node_terminus

Where to find information about nodes.

• Default: plain

noop

Whether to apply catalogs in noop mode, which allows Puppet to partially simulate a normal run. This setting affects puppet agent and puppet apply.

When running in noop mode, Puppet will check whether each resource is in sync, like it does when running normally. However, if a resource attribute is not in the desired state (as declared in the catalog), Puppet will take no action, and will instead report the changes it would have made. These simulated changes will appear in the report sent to the puppet master, or be shown on the console if running puppet agent or puppet apply in the foreground. The simulated changes will not send refresh events to any subscribing or notified resources, although Puppet will log that a refresh event would have been sent.

Important note: The noop metaparameter allows you to apply individual resources in noop mode, and will override the global value of the noop setting. This means a resource with noop => false will be changed if necessary, even when running puppet agent with noop = true or --noop. (Conversely, a resource with noop => true will only be simulated, even when noop mode is globally disabled.)

• Default: false

onetime

Perform one configuration run and exit, rather than spawning a long-running daemon. This is useful for interactively running puppet agent, or running puppet agent from cron.

• Default: false

ordering

How unrelated resources should be ordered when applying a catalog. Allowed values are title-hash, manifest, and random. This setting affects puppet agent and puppet apply, but not puppet master.

• title-hash (the default) will order resources randomly, but will use the same order across runs and across nodes.
• manifest will use the order in which the resources were declared in their manifest files.
• random will order resources randomly and change their order with each run. This can work like a fuzzer for shaking out undeclared dependencies.

Regardless of this setting’s value, Puppet will always obey explicit dependencies set with the before/require/notify/subscribe metaparameters and the ->/~> chaining arrows; this setting only affects the relative ordering of unrelated resources.

• Default: title-hash

parser

Selects the parser to use for parsing puppet manifests (in puppet DSL language/’.pp’ files). Available choices are current (the default) and future.

The current parser means that the released version of the parser should be used.

The future parser is a “time travel to the future” allowing early exposure to new language features. What these features are will vary from release to release and they may be invididually configurable.

Available Since Puppet 3.2.

• Default: current

passfile

Where puppet agent stores the password for its private key. Generally unused.

• Default: $privatedir/password

path

The shell search path. Defaults to whatever is inherited from the parent process.

• Default: none

pidfile

The file containing the PID of a running process. This file is intended to be used by service management frameworks and monitoring systems to determine if a puppet process is still in the process table.

• Default: $rundir/${run_mode}.pid

plugindest

Where Puppet should store plugins that it pulls down from the central server.

• Default: $libdir

pluginfactdest

Where Puppet should store external facts that are being handled by pluginsync

• Default: $vardir/facts.d

pluginfactsource

Where to retrieve external facts for pluginsync

• Default: puppet://$server/pluginfacts

pluginsignore

What files to ignore when pulling down plugins.

• Default: .svn CVS .git

pluginsource

From where to retrieve plugins. The standard Puppet file type is used for retrieval, so anything that is a valid file source can be used here.

• Default: puppet://$server/plugins

pluginsync

Whether plugins should be synced with the central server.

• Default: true

postrun_command

A command to run after every agent run. If this command returns a non-zero return code, the entire Puppet run will be considered to have failed, even though it might have performed work during the normal run.

preferred_serialization_format

The preferred means of serializing ruby instances for passing over the wire. This won’t guarantee that all instances will be serialized using this method, since not all classes can be guaranteed to support this format, but it will be used for all classes that support it.

• Default: pson

prerun_command

A command to run before every agent run. If this command returns a non-zero return code, the entire Puppet run will fail.

preview_outputdir

The directory where catalog previews per node are generated.

• Default: $vardir/preview

priority

The scheduling priority of the process. Valid values are ‘high’, ‘normal’, ‘low’, or ‘idle’, which are mapped to platform-specific values. The priority can also be specified as an integer value and will be passed as is, e.g. -5. Puppet must be running as a privileged user in order to increase scheduling priority.

• Default:

privatedir

Where the client stores private certificate information.

• Default: $ssldir/private

privatekeydir

The private key directory.

• Default: $ssldir/private_keys

profile

Whether to enable experimental performance profiling

• Default: false

publickeydir

The public key directory.

• Default: $ssldir/public_keys

puppetdlog

The fallback log file. This is only used when the --logdest option is not specified AND Puppet is running on an operating system where both the POSIX syslog service and the Windows Event Log are unavailable. (Currently, no supported operating systems match that description.)

Despite the name, both puppet agent and puppet master will use this file as the fallback logging destination.

For control over logging destinations, see the --logdest command line option in the manual pages for puppet master, puppet agent, and puppet apply. You can see man pages by running puppet <SUBCOMMAND> --help, or read them online at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/man/.

• Default: $logdir/puppetd.log

puppetport

Which port puppet agent listens on.

• Default: 8139

queue_source

Which type of queue to use for asynchronous processing. If your stomp server requires authentication, you can include it in the URI as long as your stomp client library is at least 1.1.1

• Default: stomp://localhost:61613/

queue_type

Which type of queue to use for asynchronous processing.

• Default: stomp

rails_loglevel

The log level for Rails connections. The value must be a valid log level within Rails. Production environments normally use info and other environments normally use debug. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: info

railslog

Where Rails-specific logs are sent. This setting is only used by the ActiveRecord storeconfigs and inventory backends, which are deprecated.

• Default: $logdir/rails.log

report

Whether to send reports after every transaction.

• Default: true

report_port

The port to communicate with the report_server.

• Default: $masterport

report_serialization_format

The serialization format to use when sending reports to the report_server. Possible values are pson and yaml. This setting affects puppet agent, but not puppet apply (which processes its own reports).

This should almost always be set to pson. It can be temporarily set to yaml to let agents using this Puppet version connect to a puppet master running Puppet 3.0.0 through 3.2.x.

Note that this is set to ‘yaml’ automatically if the agent detects an older master, so should never need to be set explicitly.

• Default: pson

report_server

The server to send transaction reports to.

• Default: $server

reportdir

The directory in which to store reports. Each node gets a separate subdirectory in this directory. This setting is only used when the store report processor is enabled (see the reports setting).

• Default: $vardir/reports

reportfrom

The ‘from’ email address for the reports.

• Default: [email protected](the system’s fully qualified domain name)

reports

The list of report handlers to use. When using multiple report handlers, their names should be comma-separated, with whitespace allowed. (For example, reports = http, tagmail.)

This setting is relevant to puppet master and puppet apply. The puppet master will call these report handlers with the reports it receives from agent nodes, and puppet apply will call them with its own report. (In all cases, the node applying the catalog must have report = true.)

See the report reference for information on the built-in report handlers; custom report handlers can also be loaded from modules. (Report handlers are loaded from the lib directory, at puppet/reports/NAME.rb.)

• Default: store

reporturl

The URL that reports should be forwarded to. This setting is only used when the http report processor is enabled (see the reports setting).

• Default: http://localhost:3000/reports/upload

req_bits

The bit length of the certificates.

• Default: 4096

requestdir

Where host certificate requests are stored.

• Default: $ssldir/certificate_requests

resourcefile

The file in which puppet agent stores a list of the resources associated with the retrieved configuration.

• Default: $statedir/resources.txt

rest_authconfig

The configuration file that defines the rights to the different rest indirections. This can be used as a fine-grained authorization system for puppet master.

• Default: $confdir/auth.conf

route_file

The YAML file containing indirector route configuration.

• Default: $confdir/routes.yaml

rrddir

The directory where RRD database files are stored. Directories for each reporting host will be created under this directory.

• Default: $vardir/rrd

rrdinterval

How often RRD should expect data. This should match how often the hosts report back to the server. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: $runinterval

rundir

Where Puppet PID files are kept.

• Default:

runinterval

How often puppet agent applies the catalog. Note that a runinterval of 0 means “run continuously” rather than “never run.” If you want puppet agent to never run, you should start it with the --no-client option. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 30m

sendmail

Where to find the sendmail binary with which to send email.

• Default: /usr/sbin/sendmail

serial

Where the serial number for certificates is stored.

• Default: $cadir/serial

server

The puppet master server to which the puppet agent should connect.

• Default: puppet

server_datadir

The directory in which serialized data is stored, usually in a subdirectory.

• Default: $vardir/server_data

show_diff

Whether to log and report a contextual diff when files are being replaced. This causes partial file contents to pass through Puppet’s normal logging and reporting system, so this setting should be used with caution if you are sending Puppet’s reports to an insecure destination. This feature currently requires the diff/lcs Ruby library.

• Default: false

signeddir

Where the CA stores signed certificates.

• Default: $cadir/signed

smtphelo

The name by which we identify ourselves in SMTP HELO for reports. If you send to a smtpserver which does strict HELO checking (as with Postfix’s smtpd_helo_restrictions access controls), you may need to ensure this resolves.

• Default: (the system’s fully qualified domain name)

smtpport

The TCP port through which to send email reports.

• Default: 25

smtpserver

The server through which to send email reports.

• Default: none

splay

Whether to sleep for a pseudo-random (but consistent) amount of time before a run.

• Default: false

splaylimit

The maximum time to delay before runs. Defaults to being the same as the run interval. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: $runinterval

srv_domain

The domain which will be queried to find the SRV records of servers to use.

• Default: (the system’s own domain)

ssl_client_ca_auth

Certificate authorities who issue server certificates. SSL servers will not be considered authentic unless they possess a certificate issued by an authority listed in this file. If this setting has no value then the Puppet master’s CA certificate (localcacert) will be used.

• Default:

ssl_client_header

The header containing an authenticated client’s SSL DN. This header must be set by the proxy to the authenticated client’s SSL DN (e.g., /CN=puppet.puppetlabs.com). Puppet will parse out the Common Name (CN) from the Distinguished Name (DN) and use the value of the CN field for authorization.

Note that the name of the HTTP header gets munged by the web server common gateway inteface: an HTTP_ prefix is added, dashes are converted to underscores, and all letters are uppercased. Thus, to use the X-Client-DN header, this setting should be HTTP_X_CLIENT_DN.

• Default: HTTP_X_CLIENT_DN

ssl_client_verify_header

The header containing the status message of the client verification. This header must be set by the proxy to ‘SUCCESS’ if the client successfully authenticated, and anything else otherwise.

Note that the name of the HTTP header gets munged by the web server common gateway inteface: an HTTP_ prefix is added, dashes are converted to underscores, and all letters are uppercased. Thus, to use the X-Client-Verify header, this setting should be HTTP_X_CLIENT_VERIFY.

• Default: HTTP_X_CLIENT_VERIFY

ssl_server_ca_auth

Certificate authorities who issue client certificates. SSL clients will not be considered authentic unless they possess a certificate issued by an authority listed in this file. If this setting has no value then the Puppet master’s CA certificate (localcacert) will be used.

• Default:

ssldir

Where SSL certificates are kept.

• Default: $confdir/ssl

statedir

The directory where Puppet state is stored. Generally, this directory can be removed without causing harm (although it might result in spurious service restarts).

• Default: $vardir/state

statefile

Where puppet agent and puppet master store state associated with the running configuration. In the case of puppet master, this file reflects the state discovered through interacting with clients.

• Default: $statedir/state.yaml

storeconfigs

Whether to store each client’s configuration, including catalogs, facts, and related data. This also enables the import and export of resources in the Puppet language - a mechanism for exchange resources between nodes.

By default this uses ActiveRecord and an SQL database to store and query the data; this, in turn, will depend on Rails being available.

You can adjust the backend using the storeconfigs_backend setting.

• Default: false

storeconfigs_backend

Configure the backend terminus used for StoreConfigs. By default, this uses the ActiveRecord store, which directly talks to the database from within the Puppet Master process.

• Default: active_record

strict_hostname_checking

Whether to only search for the complete hostname as it is in the certificate when searching for node information in the catalogs.

• Default: false

strict_variables

Makes the parser raise errors when referencing unknown variables. (This does not affect referencing variables that are explicitly set to undef).

• Default: false

stringify_facts

Flatten fact values to strings using #to_s. Means you can’t have arrays or hashes as fact values. (DEPRECATED) This option will be removed in Puppet 4.0.

• Default: true

summarize

Whether to print a transaction summary.

• Default: false

syslogfacility

What syslog facility to use when logging to syslog. Syslog has a fixed list of valid facilities, and you must choose one of those; you cannot just make one up.

• Default: daemon

tagmap

The mapping between reporting tags and email addresses.

• Default: $confdir/tagmail.conf

tags

Tags to use to find resources. If this is set, then only resources tagged with the specified tags will be applied. Values must be comma-separated.

templatedir

Where Puppet looks for template files. Can be a list of colon-separated directories.

This setting is deprecated. Please put your templates in modules instead.

• Default: $vardir/templates

thin_storeconfigs

Boolean; whether Puppet should store only facts and exported resources in the storeconfigs database. This will improve the performance of exported resources with the older active_record backend, but will disable external tools that search the storeconfigs database. Thinning catalogs is generally unnecessary when using PuppetDB to store catalogs.

• Default: false

trace

Whether to print stack traces on some errors

• Default: false

trusted_node_data

Stores trusted node data in a hash called $trusted. When true also prevents $trusted from being overridden in any scope.

• Default: false

use_cached_catalog

Whether to only use the cached catalog rather than compiling a new catalog on every run. Puppet can be run with this enabled by default and then selectively disabled when a recompile is desired.

• Default: false

use_srv_records

Whether the server will search for SRV records in DNS for the current domain.

• Default: false

usecacheonfailure

Whether to use the cached configuration when the remote configuration will not compile. This option is useful for testing new configurations, where you want to fix the broken configuration rather than reverting to a known-good one.

• Default: true

user

The user puppet master should run as.

• Default: puppet

vardir

Where Puppet stores dynamic and growing data. The default for this setting is calculated specially, like confdir_.

• Default: /var/lib/puppet

waitforcert

How frequently puppet agent should ask for a signed certificate.

When starting for the first time, puppet agent will submit a certificate signing request (CSR) to the server named in the ca_server setting (usually the puppet master); this may be autosigned, or may need to be approved by a human, depending on the CA server’s configuration.

Puppet agent cannot apply configurations until its approved certificate is available. Since the certificate may or may not be available immediately, puppet agent will repeatedly try to fetch it at this interval. You can turn off waiting for certificates by specifying a time of 0, in which case puppet agent will exit if it cannot get a cert. This setting can be a time interval in seconds (30 or 30s), minutes (30m), hours (6h), days (2d), or years (5y).

• Default: 2m

yamldir

The directory in which YAML data is stored, usually in a subdirectory.

• Default: $vardir/yaml

zlib

Boolean; whether to use the zlib library

• Default: true

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