They would not likely have covered Rspec in Puppet Fundamentals, if you took that. Rspec is a Ruby testing framework, and most of the Puppet testing tools out there are based on it.
And I think your challenge you mention isn't uncommon. A lot of sysadmins can write scripts but don't have experience with engineering practices, like writing tests. It's a new way of looking at things. The upside is that these kinds of skills are in demand, and in demand at the more interesting shops out there to work at. So it's definitely in your benefit to work through this and learn some new things :) Hang in there. Rich On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:48 PM warron.french <warron.fre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rich, thank you for the clarification. The more we discuss this, the > more clear (granted slowly) it becomes for me. > > -------------------------- > Warron French > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Rich Burroughs <r...@richburroughs.com> > wrote: > >> The agent does not pull modules in a master/agent setup. They are only on >> the master. >> >> The catalog contains the info that the agent needs to get its managed >> resources into the desired state. It's not a list of modules. >> >> >> Rich >> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM warron.french <warron.fre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Henrik, that looks like the text straight of the man page, which is what >>> I can't quite wrap my head around. >>> >>> >>> I thought the purpose of the catalog is for telling the agent what >>> modules it needs to pull to update its files to what is specified in the >>> modules. >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> Warron French >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Henrik Lindberg < >>> henrik.lindb...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 18/02/16 02:10, warron.french wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can someone please clearly explain why/when to use: >>>>> puppet apply versus Puppet agent? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> puppet agent makes requests to the master - the master compiles the >>>> catalog. >>>> >>>> puppet apply produces the catalog locally (must have all the manifests >>>> etc on the agent) - a.k.a known as running masterless. >>>> >>>> - henrik >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Visit my Blog "Puppet on the Edge" >>>> http://puppet-on-the-edge.blogspot.se/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/56C53891.4010104%40puppetlabs.com >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Puppet Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQnFb0rvuXrtyAhaeC1Vb0B5vdQ9hKbBi4oNxe2CHmy%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQnFb0rvuXrtyAhaeC1Vb0B5vdQ9hKbBi4oNxe2CHmy%2Bfg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPGcbtApFnmH6saptbLjekxQxkdM0Sv_OK%2BA13BeMTxjM4zZJg%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPGcbtApFnmH6saptbLjekxQxkdM0Sv_OK%2BA13BeMTxjM4zZJg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . > > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQmuCCFOhKgKY-UYyHxE7pUB-31vkbm9QyHkGW_k%2BxVF-w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAJdJdQmuCCFOhKgKY-UYyHxE7pUB-31vkbm9QyHkGW_k%2BxVF-w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CAPGcbtCpc1LK%3Deu5GhFVnAfXbuvkafs_mPVBBiRAFDMq3urTUA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
