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Troubleshooting Puppet
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Troubleshooting Puppet

by Thomas Uphill
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
144 pages
2h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...
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