Any web interface to show deployments history with mcollective

There doesn't seem to be a complete way to prevent Package <| |> from realizing resources. This could be a partial solution:

@package { 'nginx':
  ensure  => present,
  tag     => optional,
  require => Exec['apt-get update'],
}

Exec['apt-get update'] -> Package <| tag != optional |>

You would have to define requirements for each virtual Package, then.

The underlying problem can be solved, though, by using Run Stages:

class update-apt {
  exec { 'apt-get update': path => '/usr/bin' }
}

stage { 'first': before => Stage['main'] }
class {'update-apt':
  stage => 'first',
}

All classes and resources are run in the main-Stage by default, so Exec['apt-get update'] is always run before any Package-resources.

The issue was caused because the Puppet plugin was not installed correctly.

README.md

The plugin has been superseded by a new Puppet agent: https://github.com/puppetlabs/mcollective-puppet-agent and is available as packages from apt.puppetlabs.com and yum.puppetlabs.com as mcollective-puppet-agent

This version will stay up here till a new Puppet Commander has been written and then it will be removed.

sudo yum -y install mcollective-puppet-agent and restarting services solved the issue.

[vagrant@localhost ~]$ mco rpc puppet runonce
Discovering hosts using the mc method for 2 second(s) .... 1

 * [ ===========================================================> ] 1 / 1




Finished processing 1 / 1 hosts in 747.09 ms