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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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The parameters dilemma

In modules, we typically set up applications. Most of the time, this is done by installing packages, configuring files, and managing services.

We can write a module that does exactly what we need for our working scenario, or we can try to design it keeping in mind people with different needs and infrastructures who may use it.

These people might be us in the future when we'll have to manage a Puppet setup for another project or cope with different kinds of servers or manage unexpected or nonstandard requirements. While facing these new challenges, we might regret not having written our code in an abstract enough and reusable way.

Parameters are our APIs to the module's functionality; their values affect the module's behavior ...

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