puppet-master - The puppet master daemon
The central puppet server. Functions as a certificate authority by default.
PUPPET-MASTER(8) Puppet manual PUPPET-MASTER(8) NAME puppet-master - The puppet master daemon SYNOPSIS The central puppet server. Functions as a certificate authority by default. USAGE puppet master [-D|--daemonize|--no-daemonize] [-d|--debug] [-h|--help] [-l|--logdest syslog|FILE|console] [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version] [--compile NODE-NAME] DESCRIPTION This command starts an instance of puppet master, running as a daemon and using Ruby's built-in Webrick webserver. Puppet master can also be managed by other application servers; when this is the case, this exe- cutable is not used. OPTIONS Note that any Puppet setting that's valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument. For example, 'server' is a valid setting, so you can specify '--server servername' as an argument. Boolean set- tings translate into '--setting' and '--no-setting' pairs. See the configuration file documentation at https://docs.puppet- labs.com/puppet/latest/reference/configuration.html for the full list of acceptable settings. A commented list of all settings can also be generated by running puppet master with '--genconfig'. --daemonize Send the process into the background. This is the default. (This is a Puppet setting, and can go in puppet.conf. Note the special 'no-' prefix for boolean settings on the command line.) --no-daemonize Do not send the process into the background. (This is a Puppet setting, and can go in puppet.conf. Note the special 'no-' pre- fix for boolean settings on the command line.) --debug Enable full debugging. --help Print this help message. --logdest Where to send log messages. Choose between 'syslog' (the POSIX syslog service), 'console', or the path to a log file. If debug- ging or verbosity is enabled, this defaults to 'console'. Other- wise, it defaults to 'syslog'. A path ending with '.json' will receive structured output in JSON format. The log file will not have an ending ']' automati- cally written to it due to the appending nature of logging. It must be appended manually to make the content valid JSON. --masterport The port on which to listen for traffic. The default port is 8140. (This is a Puppet setting, and can go in puppet.conf.) --verbose Enable verbosity. --version Print the puppet version number and exit. --compile Compile a catalogue and output it in JSON from the puppet mas- ter. Uses facts contained in the $vardir/yaml/ directory to com- pile the catalog. EXAMPLE puppet master DIAGNOSTICS When running as a standalone daemon, puppet master accepts the follow- ing signals: SIGHUP Restart the puppet master server. SIGINT and SIGTERM Shut down the puppet master server. SIGUSR2 Close file descriptors for log files and reopen them. Used with logrotate. AUTHOR Luke Kanies COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2012 Puppet Inc., LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Availability | system/management/puppet | +---------------+--------------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+--------------------------+ NOTES This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/ar- chive/5.5.0.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://puppetlabs.com/. Puppet, Inc. March 2018 PUPPET-MASTER(8)