puppetserver(1)

💖 puppetserver — the main character of the manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to puppetserver(1) — that's the main command of the whole Puppetserver situation. It lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's basically the front door to everything. Come in, take your shoes off, let's go. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

puppetserver (--help | --version)
puppetserver [command] <args>

like. two moods. either you're asking for help/version, or you're calling an actual command with its args. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

puppetserver implements Puppet's server-side components for managing Puppet agents in a distributed, service-oriented architecture. ✨

so yeah — it's not just a random binary, it's literally the server side of the family, keeping an eye on all the Puppet agents out there in a distributed, service-oriented architecture. iconic behaviour, no notes. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows the help message and exits. and listen — at the top level it only lists the commands, that's it, that's the whole list. if you want the help for one specific subcommand, you gotta put the --help flag after that command name. yes bestie, order matters, it's giving "read the instructions" energy 📝
• -v, --version — shows the version number and exits. quick lil flex, in and out. ✨

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🦋 COMMANDS 🦋

okay so puppetserver has eight different commands:

• ca <args> ... — manages the Private Key Infrastructure for Puppet Server's built-in Certificate Authority 🔐
• gem <args> ... — installs and manages gems that are isolated from system Ruby and are accessible only to Puppet Server 💎
• ruby <args> ... — runs code in Puppet Server's JRuby interpreter 🧚
• irb <args> ... — starts an interactive REPL for the JRuby that Puppet Server uses 🌈
• foreground <args> ... — starts the Puppet Server as a foreground process 👀
• prune <args> ... — cleans up old files in the reportdir or bucketdir 🧹
• start <args> ... — starts the Puppet Server as a background process 🚀
• stop <args> ... — stops the Puppet Server process ✋
• reload <args> ... — reloads the Puppet Server process 🔄

For more details on the commands, see their respective manual pages. 📚

not me counting the bullets like… bestie that's nine commands up there and the page says eight 💀 anyway, slay, keeping the receipts exactly as written.

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💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? first of all, sorry babe 😭. Bugs can be reported to your distribution's bug tracker or upstream at <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetserver/issues> — go tell the maintainers, they're the ones with the power here. periodt. 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

puppetserver-ca(1), puppetserver-gem(1), puppetserver-ruby(1), puppetserver-irb(1), puppetserver-foreground(1), puppetserver-prune(1) ✨

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Louis-Philippe Véronneau — thank you for your service, we are obsessed. 🫶🌸

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 written up in 2023, living in the puppetserver(1) section of the manual, and honestly? she ate. go forth and manage your Puppet agents. 💖✨🦋