Puppet Promote a replica to a Master

Question

My puppet master can’t be restored, and so i want to promote the replica to master such that it is the new permanent master.How do i go about doing this?

Answer 1

• Verify that the master is permanently offline.
  If the master comes back online during promotion, your agents can get confused trying to connect to two active masters.

• On the replica, as the root user, run puppet infrastructure promote replica
  Promotion can take up to the amount of time it took to install PE initially. Don’t make code or classification changes during or after promotion.

• When promotion is complete, update any systems or settings that refer to the old master, such as PE client tool configurations, Code Manager hooks, Razor brokers, and CNAME records.

• Deploy updated configuration to nodes by running Puppet or waiting for the next scheduled run.

• (Optional) Provision a new replica in order to maintain high availability.
  
  Note: Agent configuration must be updated before provisioning a new replica. If you re-use your old master’s node name for the new replica, agents with outdated configuration might use the new replica as a master before it’s fully provisioned.