NAME

       puppet-plugin - Interact with the Puppet plugin system.

SYNOPSIS

       puppet plugin action

DESCRIPTION

       This subcommand provides network access to the puppet master's store of plugins.

       The  puppet  master serves Ruby code collected from the lib directories of its modules. These plugins can
       be used on agent nodes to extend Facter and implement custom types and providers.  Plugins  are  normally
       downloaded by puppet agent during the course of a run.

OPTIONS

       Note  that  any setting that's valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument, although it
       may or may not be relevant to the present action. For example, server and run_mode are valid settings, so
       you can specify --server <servername>, or --run_mode <runmode> as an argument.

       See the configuration file documentation at https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/configuration.html  for
       the  full  list  of  acceptable  parameters.  A  commented  list of all configuration options can also be
       generated by running puppet with --genconfig.

       --render-as FORMAT
              The format in which to render output. The most common formats are  json,  s  (string),  yaml,  and
              console, but other options such as dot are sometimes available.

       --verbose
              Whether to log verbosely.

       --debug
              Whether to log debug information.

ACTIONS

       download - Download plugins from the puppet master.
              SYNOPSIS

              puppet plugin download

              DESCRIPTION

              Downloads  plugins  from  the configured puppet master. Any plugins downloaded in this way will be
              used in all subsequent Puppet activity. This action modifies files on disk.

              RETURNS

              A list of the files downloaded, or a confirmation that no files were downloaded.  When  used  from
              the  Ruby  API,  this action returns an array of the files downloaded, which will be empty if none
              were retrieved.

EXAMPLES

       download

       Retrieve plugins from the puppet master:

       $ puppet plugin download

       Retrieve plugins from the puppet master (API example):

       $ Puppet::Face[:plugin, '0.0.1'].download

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2011 by Puppet Inc. Apache 2 license; see COPYING

Puppet, Inc.                                        May 2022                                    PUPPET-PLUGIN(8)