Setting up the environment

Environments in Puppet are directories holding different versions of your Puppet manifests. Environments prior to Version 3.6 of Puppet were not a default configuration for Puppet. In newer versions of Puppet, environments are configured by default.

Whenever a node connects to a Puppet master, it informs the Puppet master of its environment. By default, all nodes report to the production environment. This causes the Puppet master to look in the production environment for manifests. You may specify an alternate environment with the --environment setting when running puppet agent or by setting environment = newenvironment in /etc/puppet/puppet.conf in the [agent] section.

Getting ready

Set the environmentpath function of your installation by adding a line to the [main] section of /etc/puppet/puppet.conf as follows:

[main]
...
environmentpath=/etc/puppet/environments

How to do it...

The steps are as follows:

1. Create a production directory at /etc/puppet/environments that...