Mastering Puppet

Catalog failures

When the client requests a catalog, it is compiled on the master and sent down to the client. If the catalog fails to compile, the error is printed and can most likely be corrected easily. For example, the following base class has an obvious error:

class base {
  file {'one':
    path   => '/tmp/one',
    ensure => 'directory',
  }
  file {'one':
    path   => '/tmp/one',
    ensure => 'file',
  }
}

The file resource is defined twice with the same name. When we run Puppet, the error appears as shown in the following screenshot:

The duplicate declaration error is shown following Error 400 on SERVER.

HTTP 400 errors indicate that the request sent to the web server ...