Use tasks to run Puppet commands using Bolt for Puppet 4.0 and later 📍

If you don't have root command line access to run Puppet commands, you can run them via Bolt using a task in the puppetlabs-support_tasks module. You can use these commands to see the actual settings values that a Puppet service uses and list your modules in all environments.

Version and installation information

Puppet version: 4.0 to latest

Solution

Before you begin: To use the puppetlabs-support_tasks module with Bolt, install both on the workstation you’ll run the task from.

By using a task from the support_tasks module, you can run the following commands via Bolt:

• config_print - See the actual settings values that a Puppet service uses.
• module_list - List installed modules in all environments.
• infrastructure_status - (Puppet Enterprise only.) Display errors and alerts from PE services.
• tune - (Puppet Enterprise only.) Output optimized tuning parameters based on recommended guidelines.

To use the task

From your Bolt workstation, run the following, with your master as the target: : bolt task run support_tasks::st0371_puppet_commands command=<COMMAND> --targets <MASTER> --modulepath ~/modules.

Example:

bolt task run support_tasks::st0371_puppet_commands command="module_list" -t master --modulepath="/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules"

Output:

Started on 192.168.0.20...
Finished on 192.168.0.20:
  Puppetserver node detected
  /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules
  └── puppetlabs-support_tasks (v1.1.1)
  /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules (no modules installed)
  /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules (no modules installed)
  {
  }
Successful on 1 target: 192.168.0.20
Ran on 1 target in 2.27 sec

Learn more about:

• Installing modules using a Puppetfile
• Running tasks with Bolt
• The support_tasks module