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Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
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Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

by John Arundel
May 2017
Beginner
268 pages
6h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running Puppet inside containers

If a container can contain a whole operating system, such as Ubuntu, you might be wondering: Can't I just run Puppet inside the container?

You can, and some people do take this approach to managing containers. It also has a number of advantages:

  • You can use your existing Puppet manifests or Forge modules; there is no need to write complex Dockerfiles
  • Puppet will keep the container continuously updated; there is no need to rebuild when something changes

Of course, there are a few disadvantages too:

  • Installing Puppet inflates the image size considerably and pulls in all sorts of dependencies
  • Running Puppet slows down the build process and also consumes resources in the running container

There are also some hybrid options, ...

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ISBN: 9781787124004