Puppet 2.7 Cookbook

Using run stages

"What do you get when you play country music backwards? You get your girl back, your dog back, your pick-up back, and you stop drinking."—Louis Saaberda

It's important to do things in the right order. A common requirement is to apply a certain resource before all others (for example, installing a package repository), or after all others (for example, deploying an application once its dependencies are installed). Puppet's run stages allow you to do this.

How to do it…

1. Add the following to your manifest:

   class install_repos { notify { "This will be done first": } } class deploy_app { notify { "This will be done last": } } stage { "first": before => Stage["main"] } stage { "last": require => Stage["main"] } class { "install_repos": ...