[Pkg-puppet-devel] [release-notes] Any known issues with Puppet 2.7 -> 3.7 upgrade?

[Russ Allbery]

micah <micah at debian.org> writes:

> Hmm, this means that we are potentially making a difficult situation for
> people. If a 2.7 master doesn't work with 3.7 and Jessie has puppet
> 3.7.2, and a master must be upgraded before the clients, then that means
> that the puppetmaster needs to be upgraded before any clients, and you
> cannot do that upgrade until you "fix" all your puppet code.

Sadly, I believe that's correct.  All the teams I know who are migrating
to Puppet 3.x are bringing up a completely separate parallel 3.x
infrastructure and fixing all the manifests, and then cutting over clients
to the new Puppet master one by one.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>