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Felix Frank
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Felix Frank has used and programmed computers for most of his life. During and after working on his computer science diploma, he gained experience on the job as a systems administrator, server operator, and open source software developer. He spent 6 years of his 11-year career as a Puppet power user. In parallel, he spent about two years intensifying his studies through ongoing source code contributions and active participation in several conferences.
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The Puppet CA

Among the most frustrating issues, especially for new users, are problems with the agent's SSL handshake. Such errors are especially troublesome because Puppet cannot always offer very helpful analysis in its logs - the problems occur in the SSL library functions, and the application cannot examine the circumstances.

The online documentation at Puppet Labs has a troubleshooting section that also has some advice concerning SSL-related issues at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/troubleshooting.html.

Consider the following output for the --test command:

root@agent# puppet agent --test
Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
Warning: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=unknown state: certificate verify failed: [CRL is not yet valid for /CN=Puppet CA: puppet.example.net]

The agent opines that the CRL it receives from the master...

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Felix Frank has used and programmed computers for most of his life. During and after working on his computer science diploma, he gained experience on the job as a systems administrator, server operator, and open source software developer. He spent 6 years of his 11-year career as a Puppet power user. In parallel, he spent about two years intensifying his studies through ongoing source code contributions and active participation in several conferences.
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