Puppet Man Pages
Sections
Puppet’s command line tools consist of a single puppet binary with many subcommands. The following subcommands are available in this version of Puppet:
Core Tools
These subcommands form the core of Puppet’s tool set, and every user should understand what they do.
Secondary subcommands
Many or most users will need to use these subcommands at some point, but they aren’t needed for daily use the way the core tools are.
- puppet config
- puppet describe
- puppet device
- puppet doc
- puppet epp
- puppet help
- puppet man
- puppet node
- puppet parser
- puppet plugin
Niche subcommands
Most users can ignore these subcommands. They’re only useful for certain niche workflows, and most of them are interfaces to Puppet’s internal subsystems.
- puppet ca
- puppet catalog
- puppet certificate
- puppet certificate_request
- puppet certificate_revocation_list
- puppet facts
- puppet filebucket
- puppet key
- puppet report
- puppet status
Puppet Enterprise-specific subcommands
Puppet Enterprise (PE) has some unique subcommands, such as puppet infrastructure. For reference information about these commands, use the puppet help command, such as puppet help infrastructure. For usage information, see the Puppet Enterprise documentation.
Unknown or new subcommands
These subcommands have not yet been added to any of the categories above.