Puppet Integration about bolt HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @cjedwa!

For using agent TLS authentication, you can configure bolt to use the puppet communication protocol by connecting it to the orchestrator, if you have PE managed nodes https://puppet.com/docs/bolt/0.x/bolt_configure_orchestrator.html. I don't think we have plans to add that kind of support to OS puppet installations.

We don't have support for running a task or plan from puppet, though I'm not sure how that's different from just running a script?

We do, however, allow you to include puppet code in your plans: https://puppet.com/blog/introducing-masterless-puppet-bolt . Do you have a specific use case in mind?

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Hi, thanks for the response. Honestly, I think I'm hoping for something that Bolt just isn't meant to be.

I would like to be able to get information from clients during a traditional puppet run without using a fact. For example, if I had a json file of something deployed to the client from a package install I'm looking for the ability to read that in as a variable and use it in a later operation. Maybe merge something into it and write the file out.

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@cjedwa You actually may want to look into the recently released Deferred functionality in Puppet, which lets you evaluate functions on the agent at catalog application time.

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-specifications/blob/master/language/types_values_variables.md#deferrednew

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@cjedwa Unless there's other action you think we can take, I'm going to close this. Please let us know if you think it should remain open though!

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It could be interesting as a feature request for Puppet: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/projects/PUP

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