Switch to puppet 8

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Problem:
Now that Puppet 8 is officially supported with Foreman 3.12/Katello 4.14 and Puppet 7 is EOL soon, I wonder what I have to do exactly to switch my existing foreman servers and proxies with puppet 7 to puppet 8.

I haven’t really found anything in the docs for the switch, only for a new installation. Is there a guide somewhere how to switch to puppet 8 without breaking everything?

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Hi,

I only replaced the puppet7 repo for puppet8 repo, ran dnf update and foreman-installer and that was all.

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Yepp, just update the packages to the puppet 8 ones and run installer, you should be good.
(that’s also what our pipelines do when they test upgrades from 3.11 to 3.12+)

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Commands should be (assuming a connected installation):

dnf -y install https://yum.puppet.com/puppet8-release-el-8.noarch.rpm
dnf -y --refresh update
foreman-maintain service stop
foreman-installer --scenario katello

After that, sync the repos and repeat on clients and capsules.

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Thanks for all the answers. Switching the puppet repository to puppet8 was really everything needed. Updated packages and ran foreman-installer to make sure everything is correctly configured.

Of course, a few puppet8 changes hit some of our own modules, e.g. the deprecation of $::fqdn…