Where Are Environment Specified on a Puppet Agent?

A puppet agent can have its environment set in the configuration file /etc/puppet/puppet. conf or with the argument --environment.

Which file contains the environment in the Puppet client?

If you are using Puppet 5, it can optionally contain a hiera. yaml file. It can optionally contain an environment. conf file, which can locally override configuration settings, including modulepath and manifest .

What is a Puppet environment?

A Puppet environment is a way to supply an isolated group of agent nodes with their own dedicated configuration. Each environment contains an entire Puppet configuration tree and can be considered as a separate Puppet master server.