exec

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Requirements
3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
4. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
5. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
6. Getting help - Some Helpful commands

Description

This module provides the exec task. This task allows you to run an arbitary command with arguments.

Requirements

This module is compatible with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Bolt.

• To run tasks with Puppet Enterprise, PE 2018.1 or later must be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands. Machines receiving task requests must be Puppet agents.

• To run tasks with Puppet Bolt, Bolt 1.0 or later must be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands. Machines receiving task requests must have SSH or WinRM services enabled.

Usage

To run an exec task, use the task command, specifying the command to be executed.

• With PE on the command line, run puppet task run exec command=<COMMAND>.
• With Bolt on the command line, run bolt task run exec command=<COMMAND>.

For example, to view the free disk space of a host, run:

• With PE, run puppet task run exec command="df -h" --nodes neptune.
• With Bolt, run bolt task run exec command="df -h" --nodes neptune --modulepath ~/modules.

You can also run tasks in the PE console. See PE task documentation for complete information.

Reference

To view the available actions and parameters, on the command line, run puppet task show exec or see the exec module page on the Forge.

Limitations

To run acceptance tests against Windows machines locally, ensure that the BEAKER_password environment variable has been set to the password of the Administrator user of the target machine.

For an extensive list of supported operating systems, see metadata.json

Getting Help

To display help for the package task, run puppet task show package

To show help for the task CLI, run puppet task run --help or bolt task run --help