Troubleshooting Puppet

Autorequires

Certain resource relationships are ubiquitous. When the relationship is implied, a mechanism was developed to reduce resource ordering errors. This mechanism is called autorequire. A list of autorequire relationships is given in the type reference documentation at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html.

When troubleshooting, you should know that the following autorequire relationships exist:

• A cron resource will autorequire the specified user. An exec resource will autorequire both the working directory of the exec as a file resource and the user as which the exec runs.
• A file resource will autorequire its owner and group.
• A mount will autorequire the mounts that it depends on (a mount resource of /apps/myapp will autorequire ...