Simple question about recent Puppet versions

[David Karr]

I know very little about Puppet, as I'm just starting to examine it.

I had a couple of very high level questions about versions.

As soon as I entered this group, I noticed the announcement about Puppet 3.8.5 being released, and the docs pointer for that goes to the Puppet web site, showing version 3.8. When I go to the latest docs on the Puppet web site, it shows version 4.3.

I thought perhaps this indicates that there are parallel release trains, being at least 3.x and 4.x, but I casually searched in this group for announcements that seemed to be in the version 4.x range, and I didn't see anything.

I also noticed that very recent books on Puppet are talking about version 4.

Can someone explain the versions landscape?  I do understand that the commercial version has a different versioning scheme.  At this point, I'm just concerned about the versioning of the open source project(s).

[Kylo Ginsberg]

You are correct - there are two parallel release trains, one for 3.x and one for 4.x. In the 4.x train, puppet is released as the anchor of an all-in-one package including puppet and lots of other related components (ruby, openssl, facter, hiera, etc). That all-in-one package is called puppet-agent and you will see announcements in this group for puppet-agent, e.g. most recently the announcement for puppet-agent 1.3.5. [1]

Note that in a agent-master setup you'd also want to grab a puppet server package. The most recent announcement there is for puppetserver 2.2.1. [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/2ewaLZYZ94c

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/HNdZYddYvRY

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[David Karr]

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 2:28:04 PM UTC-8, Kylo Ginsberg wrote:

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:04 PM, David Karr <davidmic...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know very little about Puppet, as I'm just starting to examine it.

I had a couple of very high level questions about versions.

As soon as I entered this group, I noticed the announcement about Puppet 3.8.5 being released, and the docs pointer for that goes to the Puppet web site, showing version 3.8. When I go to the latest docs on the Puppet web site, it shows version 4.3.

I thought perhaps this indicates that there are parallel release trains, being at least 3.x and 4.x, but I casually searched in this group for announcements that seemed to be in the version 4.x range, and I didn't see anything.

I also noticed that very recent books on Puppet are talking about version 4.

Can someone explain the versions landscape?  I do understand that the commercial version has a different versioning scheme.  At this point, I'm just concerned about the versioning of the open source project(s).

You are correct - there are two parallel release trains, one for 3.x and one for 4.x. In the 4.x train, puppet is released as the anchor of an all-in-one package including puppet and lots of other related components (ruby, openssl, facter, hiera, etc). That all-in-one package is called puppet-agent and you will see announcements in this group for puppet-agent, e.g. most recently the announcement for puppet-agent 1.3.5. [1]

So you're telling me that "Puppet 4" is actually "puppet-agent", the latest version of which is 1.3.5?  So there won't be any release announcements for "Puppet 4", just for "puppet-agent"?
 

[Kylo Ginsberg]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 1:56 PM, David Karr <davidmic...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 2:28:04 PM UTC-8, Kylo Ginsberg wrote:

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:04 PM, David Karr <davidmic...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know very little about Puppet, as I'm just starting to examine it.

I had a couple of very high level questions about versions.

As soon as I entered this group, I noticed the announcement about Puppet 3.8.5 being released, and the docs pointer for that goes to the Puppet web site, showing version 3.8. When I go to the latest docs on the Puppet web site, it shows version 4.3.

I thought perhaps this indicates that there are parallel release trains, being at least 3.x and 4.x, but I casually searched in this group for announcements that seemed to be in the version 4.x range, and I didn't see anything.

I also noticed that very recent books on Puppet are talking about version 4.

Can someone explain the versions landscape?  I do understand that the commercial version has a different versioning scheme.  At this point, I'm just concerned about the versioning of the open source project(s).

You are correct - there are two parallel release trains, one for 3.x and one for 4.x. In the 4.x train, puppet is released as the anchor of an all-in-one package including puppet and lots of other related components (ruby, openssl, facter, hiera, etc). That all-in-one package is called puppet-agent and you will see announcements in this group for puppet-agent, e.g. most recently the announcement for puppet-agent 1.3.5. [1]

So you're telling me that "Puppet 4" is actually "puppet-agent", the latest version of which is 1.3.5?

More like: the puppet-agent package installs puppet (plus additional batteries useful when running puppet), and wrt specific versions, puppet-agent 1.x contains puppet 4.x.

For a more complete listing of all the batteries included in puppet-agent, and all the versions of those batteries: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html

 

  So there won't be any release announcements for "Puppet 4", just for "puppet-agent"?

Correct.

 

 

Note that in a agent-master setup you'd also want to grab a puppet server package. The most recent announcement there is for puppetserver 2.2.1. [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/2ewaLZYZ94c

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/HNdZYddYvRY

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