Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

Preface

There are many bad ways to write a technical book. One simply rehashes the official documentation. Another walks the reader through a large and complex example, which doesn't necessarily do anything useful, except show how clever the author is. Yet another exhaustively sets out every available feature of the technology, and every possible way you can use them, without much guidance as to which features you'll really use, or which are best avoided.

Like you, I read a lot of technical books as part of my job. I don't need a paraphrase of the documentation: I can read it online. I also don't want huge blocks of code for something that I don't need to do. And I certainly don't want an uncritical exposition of every single feature.

What I do ...