Puppet

Puppet is an open-core software configuration management tool available since 2005. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration.

Commands

• facter
• puppet agent --test
• puppet apply file.pp

Example puppet file

file {'/tmp/my-example-ip':                                            # resource type file and filename
  ensure  => present,                                               # make sure it exists
  mode    => '0644',                                                # file permissions
  content => "My Public IP Address is: ${ipaddress_eth0}.\n",  # note the ipaddress_eth0 fact
}

See also Ansible lineinfile DevOps/Ansible/Modules

Activities

1. Read Puppet release notes: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_puppet.html
2. Read Puppet source code: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet

See also

• Ansible