Changing a manifest file on a puppet master, how to get it to take hold

Question

I'm fairly new to Puppet and am using Puppet 3.x. Right now I have a puppet master running locally, which I connect to using vagrant ssh.

At the moment if I change a manifest file on that puppet master I'm logging out of ssh and calling vagrant destroy , followed by vagrant up .

This takes a good 10 minutes. Is there a faster/better way of doing this? I'm looking at librarian-puppet but am not sure whether / how to use it in this circumstance.

Answer 1

Re-Run Provisioners

If you've already provisioned the machine at least once, you can make changes to your manifests and then run:

vagrant provision

on the host. This will re-run any provisioners without requiring a new Vagrant instance to be built and provisioned for the first time. In most cases, unless you have a pathological set of manifests, this will be significantly faster.