How to run yum update in puppet config.pp file?

[Shivabalaji]

Hi Team,

I want to run yum updated every time, when I run puppet update. How do I add yum update command?

[Martin Alfke]

Hi,

On 6. May 2020, at 02:17, Shivabalaji <nakkas...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Team,

I want to run yum updated every time, when I run puppet update. How do I add yum update command?

You can use Puppet to create a cron job which runs the yum update.

https://forge.puppet.com/puppet/cron

or

https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/cron_core

You will never run yum update within Puppet.

Why: Puppet is declarative configuration management.

That means that you describe the desired state of your systems and not which actions to run on systems,

If you want to run something regular: then use cron!

Hth,

Martin