Restart puppet using puppet

If you want to ensure puppet upgrade via a puppet manifest you may run into trouble when it comes to puppet service restart.

When puppet stops the service it will kill the actual running puppet process.
Afterwards puppet does not do the start command.




You can solve this by using the following service resource:

service { 'puppet':
  enable   => true,
  ensure   => running,
  restart  => '/usr/bin/nohup /etc/init.d/puppet restart &',
}

This will fork a puppet restart command in background.