Puppet Man Pages

Included in Puppet Enterprise 2015.2. A newer version is available; see the version menu above for details.

Puppet’s command line tools consist of a single puppet binary with many subcommands. The following subcommands are available in this version of Puppet:

Core Tools

These subcommands form the core of Puppet’s tool set, and every user should understand what they do.

• puppet agent
• puppet apply
• puppet cert
• puppet master
• puppet module
• puppet resource

Occasionally Useful Subcommands

Many or most users will need to use these subcommands at some point, but they aren’t needed for daily use the way the core tools are.

• puppet config
• puppet describe
• puppet device
• puppet doc
• puppet epp
• puppet help
• puppet man
• puppet node
• puppet parser
• puppet plugin

Niche Subcommands

Most users can ignore these subcommands. They’re only useful for certain niche workflows, and most of them are interfaces to Puppet’s internal subsystems.

• puppet ca
• puppet catalog
• puppet certificate
• puppet certificate_request
• puppet certificate_revocation_list
• puppet facts
• puppet file
• puppet filebucket
• puppet inspect
• puppet key
• puppet report
• puppet resource_type
• puppet status