NAME¶
puppet-kick - Remotely control puppet agent
SYNOPSIS¶
Trigger a puppet agent run on a set of hosts.
USAGE¶
puppet kick [-a|--all] [-c|--class
class] [-d|--debug] [-f|--foreground]
[-h|--help] [--host
host] [--no-fqdn] [--ignoreschedules] [-t|--tag
tag] [--test] [-p|--ping]
host [
host [...]]
DESCRIPTION¶
This script can be used to connect to a set of machines running ´puppet
agent´ and trigger them to run their configurations. The most common
usage would be to specify a class of hosts and a set of tags, and
´puppet kick´ would look up in LDAP all of the hosts matching
that class, then connect to each host and trigger a run of all of the objects
with the specified tags.
If you are not storing your host configurations in LDAP, you can specify hosts
manually.
You will most likely have to run ´puppet kick´ as root to get
access to the SSL certificates.
´puppet kick´ reads ´puppet master´´s
configuration file, so that it can copy things like LDAP settings.
USAGE NOTES¶
Puppet kick needs the puppet agent on the target machine to be running as a
daemon, be configured to listen for incoming network connections, and have an
appropriate security configuration.
The specific changes required are:
- •
- Set listen = true in the agent´s puppet.conf file (or
--listen on the command line)
- •
- Configure the node´s firewall to allow incoming connections on port
8139
- •
- Insert the following stanza at the top of the node´s
auth.conf file:
-
-
# Allow puppet kick access
path /run
method save
auth any
allow workstation.example.com
-
-
-
This example would allow the machine
workstation.example.com to trigger a
Puppet run; adjust the "allow" directive to suit your site. You may
also use
allow * to allow anyone to trigger a Puppet run, but that
makes it possible to interfere with your site by triggering excessive Puppet
runs.
See
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/rest_auth_conf.html for more
details about security settings.
OPTIONS¶
Note that any configuration parameter that´s valid in the configuration
file is also a valid long argument. For example, ´ssldir´ is a
valid configuration parameter, so you can specify ´--ssldir
directory´ as an argument.
See the configuration file documentation at
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html for the full
list of acceptable parameters. A commented list of all configuration options
can also be generated by running puppet master with
´--genconfig´.
- --all
- Connect to all available hosts. Requires LDAP support at this point.
- --class
- Specify a class of machines to which to connect. This only works if you
have LDAP configured, at the moment.
- --debug
- Enable full debugging.
- --foreground
- Run each configuration in the foreground; that is, when connecting to a
host, do not return until the host has finished its run. The default is
false.
- --help
- Print this help message
- --host
- A specific host to which to connect. This flag can be specified more than
once.
- --ignoreschedules
- Whether the client should ignore schedules when running its configuration.
This can be used to force the client to perform work it would not normally
perform so soon. The default is false.
- --parallel
- How parallel to make the connections. Parallelization is provided by
forking for each client to which to connect. The default is 1, meaning
serial execution.
- --puppetport
- Use the specified TCP port to connect to agents. Defaults to 8139.
- --tag
- Specify a tag for selecting the objects to apply. Does not work with the
--test option.
- --test
- Print the hosts you would connect to but do not actually connect. This
option requires LDAP support at this point.
- --ping
- Do an ICMP echo against the target host. Skip hosts that don´t
respond to ping.
EXAMPLE¶
$ sudo puppet kick -p 10 -t remotefile -t webserver host1 host2
AUTHOR¶
Luke Kanies
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (c) 2011 Puppet Labs, LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License