Running plans in PE

The orchestrator can run plans across systems in your infrastructure. You can set up plan jobs from the Puppet Enterprise (PE) console or the command line. Plan jobs can run once or on a recurring schedule.

Plans can't change your Puppet configuration, which defines the desired state of your infrastructure. If you run a plan that changes the state of a resource managed by Puppet (for example, upgrading a package or service), the next Puppet run changes that resource's state back to what is defined in your Puppet configuration.

If you have set up compilers and you want to use plans, you must set either primary_uris or server_list on your agents to point to your compilers. This setting is described in the section on configuring compilers for orchestrator scale.