Puppet users - Sep 2013 - best practice

Hi everybody!

So for non-automated physical/manual application of single specific patterns or
sets of puppet patterns on an entirely manual basis, what is best practice
and/or where is it described?

Meaning what is the way to stop the
puppet agent from running automatically and instead require a manual command for
puppet to exercise on that node.

If it is as simple as 

  puppet apply path-to-pp

with the puppet agent up but somehow disabled for automatic operation, I can
work with that or equivalent. Forgive me if I have misphrased the syntax.

I am asking you how you did that. 

This is for deployments of software
which are manually extremely intensive. 

Thanks. 

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To run puppet manually, you should first disable the service:

    puppet apply -e ''service { "puppet": ensure =>
stopped, enable => false }''

To manually apply a manifest, point it at a local manifest like so:

    puppet apply /path/to/manifest.pp

-- Peter (from phone)

On Sep 5, 2013, at 6:44 PM, Stuart Cracraft <smcracraft@me.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> So for non-automated physical/manual application of single specific
patterns or sets of puppet patterns on an entirely manual basis, what is best
practice and/or where is it described?
> 
> Meaning what is the way to stop the
> puppet agent from running automatically and instead require a manual
command for puppet to exercise on that node.
> 
> If it is as simple as 
> 
>  puppet apply path-to-pp
> 
> with the puppet agent up but somehow disabled for automatic operation, I
can work with that or equivalent. Forgive me if I have misphrased the syntax.
> 
> I am asking you how you did that. 
> 
> This is for deployments of software
> which are manually extremely intensive. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
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