Running puppet script on remote machine

Question

I am working on a vagrantfile which uses puppet script to do the provisioning. As a part of provisioning a lot of packages are installed and configured.

Since the work is still in progress, i would like to run the puppet script on a remote machine i have which has a lot better and dedicated net connection.

So, is there a way to specify a remove machine to puppet script, so all the provisioning are done on that machine? Once the scripts are final i can modify them to work with vagrant.

Answer 1

If your workstation has a slow connection, but you have ssh access to another machine that has faster internet, you could edit your puppet manifest remotely.

To test your manifest remotely, try the following

puppet parser validate foo.pp
puppet-apply --verbose --debug --noop --modulepath=/opt/puppet/modules foo.pp

Note that the --noop will only simulate what will happen.

Once you are sure the puppet module works, you can copy it to your local vagrant machine.