March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
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If you have a server that is already configured as it needs to be, or nearly so, you can capture that configuration as a Puppet manifest. The Puppet resource command generates Puppet manifests from the existing configuration of a system. For example, you can have puppet resource generate a manifest that creates all the users found on the system. This is very useful to take a snapshot of a working system and get its configuration quickly into Puppet.
Here are some examples of using puppet resource to get data from a running system:
[root@cookbook ~]# puppet resource user thomas user { 'thomas': ensure => ...
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