PUPPETDB(8)

πŸŽ€ NAME πŸŽ€

okay bestie, meet puppetdb β€” it's the Puppet data warehouse server πŸ’– and yes she's section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, we love a main character who files herself under "System Manager's Manual" ✨


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

puppetdb command [ARGS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. a command, and then args, slay πŸ’…


🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea β˜• β€” PuppetDB collects data generated by Puppet. it's literally the data warehouse era of your Puppet setup.

and because of that, she unlocks the fancy stuff: advanced Puppet features like exported resources πŸ”₯ and she can also be the foundation for other applications that use Puppet's data β€” like, other apps building on top of her, iconic behavior honestly πŸ‘‘

also, puppetdb (the command itself) is a command line interface to PuppetDB, and it offers some administrative functions. so it's giving "backstage pass to the warehouse" energy 🎟️✨


πŸ’– SUPPORTED COMMANDS πŸ’–

the puppetdb program supports the following commands, and no we're not skipping any of them 🫢

  • export β€” Export PuppetDB data and save them to a tarball. cute little tarball, we love a portable moment πŸ“¦
  • import β€” Load PuppetDB data from a tarball created using puppetdb export. the round trip!! the way that export and import are literally made for each other πŸ˜­πŸ’ž
  • version β€” Display PuppetDB version information. know your girl's version, no cap 🌈
ngl, for the arguments supported by each command, just run puppetdb command --help β€” she'll tell you herself, she's very forthcoming like that πŸ’…

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

  • puppet(8) β€” her bestie, fr fr 🫢

πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

PuppetDB was written by Puppet Inc. periodt πŸ’–

and this manpage? written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org> for the Debian project, but may be used by others β€” generous queen behavior, we stan πŸŽ€βœ¨


okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah πŸ’‹ β€” this was PUPPETDB(8) from the System Manager's Manual, last touched August 2017, and yeah she's still serving πŸ¦‹πŸ’…βœ¨

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from