About deprecations in this version of Puppet

Puppet Platform reference manual

• Introduction
• Puppet 5 Platform
  • Puppet 5.3 release notes
  • Puppet known issues
  • System requirements
  • Component versions in puppet-agent
  • Puppet agent release notes
  • Puppet Server 5.1 release notes
  • Facter release notes
• Quick start guides
  • Essential configuration tasks
    • NTP quick start guide
    • DNS quick start guide
    • Sudo quick start guide
    • Firewall quick start guide
• Deprecated features
  • About deprecations in this version
  • Web servers
  • Upcoming operating system deprecations
  • Language features
  • Extension points and APIs
  • Settings
• Installing and upgrading
  • Overview of Puppet’s architecture
  • Pre-install tasks
  • Puppet Platform repositories
  • Install: Puppet Server
  • Install: Puppet agent
    • Install agent: Linux
    • Install agent: Windows
    • Install agent: macOS
  • Install: PuppetDB
  • Major upgrade from Puppet 3.8.x
    • File location changes since Puppet 3.8.x
    • Pre-upgrade tasks from 3.8
    • Upgrade agents from 3.8.x Puppet 5.x
    • Upgrade servers
    • Post-upgrade cleanup
  • Minor upgrades: From Puppet 4 and within Puppet 5.x
• Configuration
  • About Puppet’s settings
  • Short list of important settings
  • Config files
    • puppet.conf: The main config file
    • environment.conf: Per-environment settings
    • auth.conf (LEGACY): HTTPS authorization
    • fileserver.conf: Custom fileserver mount points
    • puppetdb.conf: PuppetDB server locations
    • hiera.yaml: Data lookup configuration
    • autosign.conf: Basic certificate autosigning
    • csr_attributes.yaml: Certificate extensions
    • custom_trusted_oid_mapping.yaml: Short names for cert extension OIDs
    • device.conf: Network hardware access
    • routes.yaml: Advanced plugin routing
  • Configuring Puppet Server
    • Puppet Server’s config files
    • puppetserver.conf: Main config file
    • auth.conf: Access control
    • webserver.conf: Jetty web server config
    • web-routes.conf: Mount points for component services
    • global.conf: Trapperkeeper settings
    • ca.conf: CA service access control (deprecated)
    • master.conf: Authorization by HTTP header (deprecated)
    • product.conf: Configuring Product-level Interactions (optional)
    • logback.xml: Logging level and location
    • Advanced logging configuration
    • Bootstrap upgrade notes
  • Checking values of settings
  • Editing settings on the command line
  • Complete list of settings (configuration reference)
  • Settings that differ under Puppet Server
• Important directories and files
  • Code and data directory (codedir)
  • Config directory (confdir)
  • The main manifest
  • The modulepath
  • The SSLdir
  • Cache directory (vardir)
• Environments
  • About environments
  • Creating environments
  • Environment isolation
• Modules
  • Fundamentals
  • Beginner’s guide to writing modules
  • Plugins in modules
  • Installing modules
  • Publishing modules on the Puppet Forge
  • Module metadata and metadata.json
  • Documenting modules
  • Module cheat sheet
• Puppet’s services and tools
  • Puppet’s commands
  • Running Puppet commands on Windows
  • Puppet master
    • Puppet Server
    • The rack Puppet master
    • Configuring a Server with Passenger and Apache
    • The WEBrick Puppet master
  • Puppet agent on *nix
  • Puppet agent on Windows
  • Puppet apply
• Puppet Server
  • Index
  • About Puppet Server
  • Release notes
  • Deprecated features
  • Notable differences vs. the Apache/Passenger stack
  • Compatibility with Puppet agent
  • Installing Puppet Server
  • Configuring Puppet Server
  • Differing behavior in puppet.conf
  • Using and extending Puppet Server
    • Subcommands
    • Using Ruby gems
    • Using an external certificate authority
    • External SSL termination
    • Monitoring Puppet Server metrics
      • HTTP client metrics
    • Tuning guide
    • Applying metrics to improve performance
    • Scaling Puppet Server
    • Restarting Puppet Server
  • Known issues and workarounds
    • Known issues
    • SSL problems with load-balanced PuppetDB servers (“Server Certificate Change” error)
  • Administrative API endpoints
    • Environment cache
    • JRuby pool
  • Server-specific Puppet API endpoints
    • Environment classes
    • Environment modules
    • Static file content
  • Status API endpoints
    • Status services
  • Metrics API endpoints
    • v1 metrics
    • v2 (Jolokia) metrics
  • Developer information
    • Debugging
    • Running from source
    • Tracing code events
• The Puppet language
  • Visual index
  • Basics
  • Puppet language style guide
  • Handling file paths on Windows
  • Variables
  • Resources
  • Resources (advanced)
  • Relationships and ordering
  • Classes
  • Defined resource types
  • Tasks
  • Type aliases
  • Expressions and operators
  • Conditional statements and expressions
  • Function calls
  • Docs for built-in functions
  • Node definitions
  • Comments
  • Facts and built-in variables
  • Reserved words and acceptable names
  • Writing functions (Puppet language)
  • Custom types
  • Provider development
  • Values and data types
    • About values and data types
    • Strings
    • Numbers
    • Booleans
    • Arrays
    • Hashes
    • Regular expressions
    • Sensitive
    • Undef
    • Resource references
    • Resource types
    • Default
    • Data type syntax
    • Abstract data types
  • Templates
    • Using templates
    • Embedded Puppet (EPP) template syntax
    • Embedded Ruby (ERB) template syntax
  • Advanced constructs
    • Iteration and loops
    • Lambdas (code blocks)
    • Resource defaults
    • Resource collectors
    • Virtual resources
    • Exported resources
    • Tags
    • Run stages
  • Details of complex behaviors
    • Containment of resources
    • Scope
    • Namespaces and autoloading
• Writing custom functions
  • Introduction to writing functions
  • Writing functions (Puppet language)
  • Writing functions (modern Ruby API)
    • Overview and examples
    • Defining signatures
    • Special features in implementation methods
    • Documenting Ruby functions
  • Writing functions (legacy Ruby API — avoid)
• Hiera
  • Hiera
  • Getting started with Hiera
  • Configuring Hiera
  • Creating and editing data
  • Looking up data with Hiera
  • Writing new data backends
  • Upgrading to Hiera 5
• Facter
  • Facter release notes
  • Core facts
  • Custom fact overview/reference
  • Custom fact walkthrough
  • External facts
  • Configuring Facter with facter.conf
• Resource types
  • All resource types (single-page reference)
  • Core types cheat sheet
  • Optional resource types for Windows
  • augeas
  • Augeas tips and examples
  • computer
  • cron
  • exec
  • Exec tips and examples for Windows
  • file
  • File tips and examples for Windows
  • filebucket
  • group
  • User and group tips and examples for Windows
  • host
  • index
  • interface
  • k5login
  • macauthorization
  • mailalias
  • maillist
  • mcx
  • mount
  • nagios_command
  • nagios_contact
  • nagios_contactgroup
  • nagios_host
  • nagios_hostdependency
  • nagios_hostescalation
  • nagios_hostextinfo
  • nagios_hostgroup
  • nagios_service
  • nagios_servicedependency
  • nagios_serviceescalation
  • nagios_serviceextinfo
  • nagios_servicegroup
  • nagios_timeperiod
  • notify
  • package
  • Package tips and examples for Windows
  • resources
  • router
  • schedule
  • scheduled_task
  • Scheduled task tips and examples
  • selboolean
  • selmodule
  • service
  • Service tips and examples
  • ssh_authorized_key
  • sshkey
  • stage
  • tidy
  • user
  • User and group tips and examples for Windows
  • vlan
  • yumrepo
  • zfs
  • zone
  • zpool
• Reports: Tracking Puppet’s activity
  • About reporting
  • Built-in report processors
  • Writing custom report processors
  • Puppet::Transaction::Report object format
• Extensions for assigning classes to nodes
  • External node classifiers
  • The LDAP node classifier
• Misc. references (settings, functions, etc.)
  • Settings (configuration reference)
  • Functions
  • Metaparameters
  • Built-in report processors
  • Indirections and termini
  • Ruby API for developing extensions
• Man pages
  • Index
  • Core tools
    • puppet agent
    • puppet apply
    • puppet cert
    • puppet master
    • puppet module
    • puppet resource
    • puppet lookup
  • Occasionally useful
    • puppet config
    • puppet describe
    • puppet device
    • puppet doc
    • puppet help
    • puppet man
    • puppet node
    • puppet parser
    • puppet plugin
  • Niche
    • puppet ca
    • puppet catalog
    • puppet certificate
    • puppet certificate_request
    • puppet certificate_revocation_list
    • puppet facts
    • puppet filebucket
    • puppet key
    • puppet report
    • puppet status
• HTTP API
  • Index
  • PSON
  • Puppet v3 API
    • Catalog
    • Node
    • File bucket file
    • File content
    • File metadata
    • Report
    • Environments
    • Status
  • CA v1 API
    • Certificate
    • Certificate signing requests
    • Certificate status
    • Certificate revocation list
  • Schemas (JSON files)
    • catalog.json
    • environments.json
    • error.json
    • facts.json
    • file_metadata.json
    • host.json
    • json-meta-schema.json
    • node.json
    • report.json
    • status.json
• SSL and certificates
  • Using an external CA
  • Using an external CA with Puppet Server
  • External SSL termination with Puppet Server
  • Configuring autosigning
  • CSR attributes and certificate extensions
  • Regenerating all certificates in a deployment
• Adding file server mount points
• Details about Puppet’s internals
  • Agent/master HTTPS communications
  • Catalog compilation
• Experimental features
  • Overview
  • Msgpack support