Puppet manifest not pulling

Continued from the previous post. As I am making full use of my 30-days free account in Azure, I have setup a pair of Puppet servers to test (with respect to the reference article at the bottom).

A problem

In the Puppet master, I have:

/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp

with content

file {'/tmp/example-ip':         # resource type file and filename
  ensure  => present,            # make sure it exists
  mode    => '0644',             # file permissions
  content => "Here is my Public IP Address: ${ipaddress_eth0}.\n",  # note the ipaddress_eth0 fact
}

In the Puppet agent, after running ‘puppet agent -t’, it did not pull down the file (/tmp/example-ip) as expected. It worked when directly applying the same manifest in the agent directly (puppet apply site.pp). And I have confirmed it is not a certificate issue.

Troubleshooting

In the Puppet master, I have checked the configurations:

puppet config print > my_puppet_conf

In my_puppet_conf, I confirmed these variables were set as expected:

confdir = /etc/puppet
default_manifest = ./manifests

I noticed another default value might be off:

manifest = no_manifest

I’m not sure what it meant by ‘no manifest’. I could not find the relevant doc for this setting yet.

Anyway, the following default variables were directly related to my ‘problem’:

environment = production
environmentpath = /etc/puppet/code/environments

i.e. instead of

/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp

It needs to be:

/etc/puppet/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-puppet-to-manage-your-server-infrastructure