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  configuration  parameter  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 configuration parameters, so you can specify --server <servername>, or --run_mode <runmode> as
       an argument.

       See             the             configuration             file              documentation              at
       http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/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 Labs Apache 2 license; see COPYING

Puppet Labs, LLC                                  January 2013                                  PUPPET-PLUGIN(8)