Managing Infrastructure with Puppet

Getting Started

Once Puppet is installed, you will have the puppet command at your disposal. The first thing you should do is run puppet describe --list. This will provide a list of the available resource “types” you have to work with out of the box:

:> puppet describe --list These are the types known to puppet: augeas - Apply the changes (single or array of changes ... computer - Computer object management using DirectorySer ... cron - Installs and manages cron jobs exec - Executes external commands file - Manages local files, including setting owners ... filebucket - A repository for backing up files group - Manage groups host - Installs and manages host entries k5login - Manage the ` macauthorization - Manage the Mac OS X authorization database mailalias - Creates an email alias in the local alias dat ... maillist - Manage email lists mcx - MCX object management using DirectoryService ... mount - Manages mounted filesystems, including puttin ... nagios_command - The Nagios type command nagios_contact - The Nagios type contact nagios_contactgroup - The Nagios type contactgroup nagios_host - The Nagios type host nagios_hostdependency - The Nagios type hostdependency nagios_hostescalation - The Nagios type hostescalation nagios_hostextinfo - The Nagios type hostextinfo nagios_hostgroup - The Nagios type hostgroup nagios_service - The Nagios type service nagios_servicedependency - The Nagios type servicedependency nagios_serviceescalation - The Nagios type serviceescalation nagios_serviceextinfo ...