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

[micah]

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org> writes:

> 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.

Indeed. I think that we should include this in the documentation as
well!

micah