puppet.conf ini heading

[Matt Zagrabelny]

Greetings,

I'm running puppet 5.5.6 (Debian testing.)

I'm seeing some curious and inconsistent results from where I put config settings in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. When I use the [master] heading, the "external_nodes" setting is read by the puppet master:

# cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

[master]

node_terminus  = exec

external_nodes = /opt/bin/my-enc

# systemctl restart puppet-master.service

# puppet config print external_nodes

none

However, if I remove the "master" section heading in the puppet.conf file, I get the results I expect:

# cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

node_terminus  = exec

external_nodes = /opt/bin/my-enc

# systemctl restart puppet-master.service

# puppet config print external_nodes

/opt/bin/my-enc

Should I file a bug or is this somehow expected?

Thanks!

-m

[Justin Stoller]

When your master run it uses only certain sections of the config file (mainly "master" and "main"[1]), while config print will by default use the section "main". You can use the `--section <section>` flag to act on a specific section. If you don't specify a section in the puppet.conf the setting will be applied to the "main" section.

eg `puppet config print --section master external_nodes` should give you want you want.

HTH,

Justin

1. https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/5.5.x/lib/puppet/application/master.rb#L274

Thanks!

-m

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[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:10 PM Justin Stoller <jus...@puppet.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:34 PM Matt Zagrabelny <mzag...@d.umn.edu> wrote:

Greetings,

I'm running puppet 5.5.6 (Debian testing.)

I'm seeing some curious and inconsistent results from where I put config settings in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf. When I use the [master] heading, the "external_nodes" setting is read by the puppet master:

# cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf

[master]

node_terminus  = exec

external_nodes = /opt/bin/my-enc

# systemctl restart puppet-master.service

# puppet config print external_nodes

none

[...] 

 

When your master run it uses only certain sections of the config file (mainly "master" and "main"[1]), while config print will by default use the section "main". You can use the `--section <section>` flag to act on a specific section. If you don't specify a section in the puppet.conf the setting will be applied to the "main" section.

eg `puppet config print --section master external_nodes` should give you want you want.

 

Indeed it does!

Thanks, Justin!

-m