Puppet in Docker Running puppet commands inside a docker container

Question

How do i know what all packages (pertaining to puppet) are installed on a docker image? Also what's the process to find out the packages that are installed on the host rather than the docker container?

Answer 1

You can use Puppet commands, such as resource. 

The following command lists all of the packages installed on the image.

docker run puppet/puppet-agent-ubuntu resource package --param provider

To find out about the packages installed on the host, rather than in the container, mount in various folder from the host like so.

docker run --privileged -v /tmp:/tmp --net host -v /etc:/etc -v /var:/var -v /usr:/usr -v lib64:/lib64 puppet/puppet-agent-ubuntu resource package

This will do!