Consequences of having the compatible puppet agent version

[Vinay Korrapati]

Hi Team,

I have upgraded the PE from 2019.1.0 to 2019.5.0. As per the component versions table 2019.1.0 puppet agents (6.4.2) are compatible with PE 2019.5.0 

https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2019.5/component_versions_in_recent_pe_releases.html 

Any consequences if i am not upgrade my puppet agents to 6.14.0 (version in puppet master) ?? yeah, its suggestible to maintain both PE and agent on same version. But what are the drawbacks if both are in compatible versions.

Regards

Vinay 

[Marty Ewings]

HI There.

While the older agents are compatible, it is advisable to upgrade as you will not be able to use some new functionality, and you will be missing any bug fixes found since that version, lists can be found here:

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_puppet.html

Secondly, as this is PE there are implications for Support, the advice will be to replicate any issues on the current version, and all fixes can only be put into newer versions of the agent