puppet-help - Display Puppet help.
Contents
Actions
help - Display help about Puppet subcommands and their actions.
SYNOPSIS
puppet help [--version VERSION] [--ronn] [subcommand] [action]
DESCRIPTION
Display help about Puppet subcommands and their actions.
OPTIONS--ronn - Whether to render the help text in ronn format.
--versionVERSION - The version of the subcommand for which to show help.
RETURNS
Short help text for the specified subcommand or action.
Copyright And License
Copyright 2011 by Puppet Inc. Apache 2 license; see COPYING
Puppet, Inc. November 2024 PUPPET-HELP(8)
Examples
help
Get help for an action:
$ puppet help
Name
puppet-help - Display Puppet help.
Options
Note that any setting 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 settings, so
you can specify --server<servername>, or --run_mode<runmode> as an argument.
See the configuration file documentation at https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/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.
Synopsis
puppet help action