Announce: puppet_agent module 0.2.0 released

[Michael Smith]

The puppet_agent module 0.2.0 is available.

The puppet_agent module is intended to ease the transition of agents from Puppet 3.8 to Puppet 4 (using the puppet-agent package). It works with both master and master-less setups, but expects your existing Puppet installation to be installed via packages.

https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/puppet_agent

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppet_agent

The 0.2.0 release has support for most platforms for which we release both Puppet 3.x and Puppet-Agent packages:

- Windows Server 2003, 2003R2, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2

- Windows 7, 8

- RHEL 5, 6, 7

- CentOS 5, 6, 7

- Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

- Debian 6, 7

The module currently installs the latest puppet-agent module available from puppetlabs.com, although a specific source URL can be provided with the source parameter.

The goal is to automate the agent side of upgrading from Puppet 3.x. Note that Puppet Server 2.1 supports backwards compatibility with Puppet 3 agents.