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Extending Puppet
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Extending Puppet

by Alessandro Franceschi
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Sample architectures

We have outlined the main tasks and components we can use to put things together in a Puppet architecture; we have looked at Foreman, Hiera, and the roles and profiles pattern. Now, let's see some real examples based on them.

The default approach

By default, Puppet doesn't use an ENC and lets us classify nodes directly in /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp (or in files imported from there) with the node statement. So, a very basic setup would have site.pp with a content like the following:

node www01 {
  # Place here resources to apply to this node in Puppet DSL:
  # file, package service, mount...
}
node lb01 {
  # Resources for this node: file, package service...
}

This is all we basically need; no modules with their classes, no Hiera, ...

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ISBN: 9781783981441Supplemental Content