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| schestowitz | writing some manuals today.. | Jan 05 23:35 |
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| schestowitz | This is not intended to be a complete guide to puppet, but it introduces the key concepts a user is required to grasp and provides links for further reading. | Jan 05 23:35 |
| schestowitz | Puppet is a tool that allows machines to be configured automatically, allowing rapid deployment and recovery after failure. At the most basic form, it delivers pre-written configuration files into appropriate locations, depending on the given purpose of the machine. Those configuration files can be managed centrally and altered in unison. | Jan 05 23:35 |
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| schestowitz | PuppetDefinitions tries to define some of the concepts and terminology which puppet uses. | Jan 05 23:37 |
| schestowitz | PuppetResource - How to do one off jobs via the command line | Jan 05 23:37 |
| schestowitz | PuppetManifest - Short summary of how to write and apply puppet programs | Jan 05 23:37 |
| schestowitz | HowtoPuppetCoding has information on the basic coding principles required to understand puppet configuration. | Jan 05 23:37 |
| schestowitz | UsefulThings to know about when working with puppet. | Jan 05 23:37 |
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| schestowitz | As puppet uses some rather familiar words in an unfamiliar way, here is a list of definitions: | Jan 05 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Resource = Any part of a system; for example, a file, an account, a package... | Jan 05 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Type = A type groups similar Resources. Examples: file, service, package... (to get command line help for a particular type use puppet describe -s typename) | Jan 05 23:43 |
| schestowitz | RAL = Resource abstraction layer "The RAL splits resources into types (high-level models) and Providers (platform-specific implementations)..." | Jan 05 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Provider = A platform-specific implementation of a Resource | Jan 05 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Manifest = A file containing a puppet program (ending in .pp) | Jan 05 23:43 |
| schestowitz | Resource declaration (the core concept of puppet language) = represents the desired state of a Resource. | Jan 05 23:43 |
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