puppet-enterprise

I have created the puppet master using aws opsworks. and I am able to add ami linux nodes automatically to the puppet master. I am having issues when I tried to to add a windows 64 bit node to my puppet master by following this link https://puppet.com/docs/pe/2017.3/installing/installing_agents.html#install-windows-agents-with-the-msi-package I copied the puppet-agent-x64.msi from the puppet master present in location to the windows node and /opt/puppetlabs/server/data/packages/public//windows-x86_64-/ and ran the installer to install the agent. the installation is successful and the Start

Is it possible to store a linux command result in variable? I am trying to store an encrypted value in a variable. To encrypt I am using base64 command. To store it in variable, I am using generate method. But I am not able to store a value. $secretvalue = generate("/bin/bash","-c","/usr/bin/echo ${password} | /usr/bin/base64") If you want to execute any command on Puppet Master server you can use inline_template function with ERB template inside and Ruby code for execute shell command: $password = "12345" $secretvalue = inline_template("<%= `/bin/echo ${password} | /usr/bin/base64` %>")