Puppet is moving away from pson and is supporting json by default. As such it no longer supports sending binary data on the wire. This normally occures when a file resource has its source set to a binary file. In order to fix this we need to migrate to using the binary_file handler. for example given the following resource
class test { file {'/tmp/test.png': ensure => file, source => 'puppet:///modules/test/test.png, }
We need to change this to
class test { file {'/tmp/test.png': ensure => file, content => binary_file('test/test.png'), }
To support sending the binary type to the agent via the puppet catalogue we must use the rich_data option. This is option is on by default in puppet6
WARNING: it seems that in puppet < 6 the rich_data option only make a difference to puppet apply not puppet agent
WARNING: even though wmflib::secret exists it will not work untill we enable this configuration. If used the function will copy the base64 content to the destination instead of the binary file content