Pro Puppet, Second Edition

CHAPTER 6

Exporting and Storing Configuration

So far in the book, you’ve seen how Puppet models configuration on a single host. In many cases, however, you have configuration on multiple hosts that have a relationship; for example, your monitoring system needs to know about configuration on hosts being monitored. In this chapter we look at three Puppet features that help you model resources on multiple hosts: virtual resources, exported resources, and stored configuration using PuppetDB.

• Virtual resources are a method of managing resources that may be required by multiple configurations. For example, a user may be required on some hosts but ...