advanced.md

Advanced usage

With --octocatalog-diff supporting over 75 command line options (and counting), there's a little something for everyone. On this page, we document some interesting use cases that can be accomplished with creative combinations of options.

If you find a creative use of octocatalog-diff that we haven't thought of, we encourage you to create a document named advanced-SOMETHING.md and link to it from here!

See also:

• Basic usage - Common use cases to get you started
• Command line options reference - A list of all the options
• How to add new command line options - If you'd like to add an option of your own

Advanced usage documentation

Building catalogs

• Bootstrapping your Puppet checkout
• Building catalogs instead of diffing catalogs
• Enabling storeconfigs for exported resources in PuppetDB
• Fetching catalogs from Puppet Master / PuppetServer
• Overriding ENC parameters
• Overriding facts
• Puppet Enterprise node classification service
• Using octocatalog-diff without git
• Catalog validation
• Environment setup
• Overriding built-in octocatalog-diff scripts

Controlling output

• Ignoring certain changes via command line options
• Additional output filters
• Dynamic ignoring of changes via tags in Puppet manifests
• Output formats
• Useful output hacks

Using octocatalog-diff in CI

• Using octocatalog-diff in CI

Using octocatalog-diff on your workstation

• Enabling the cache directory

Using octocatalog-diff to help you upgrade

• Compiling the same catalog with different Puppet versions
• Enabling the future parser