Puppet Best Practices

Index

Symbols

• $facts hash, Use the facts hash to retrieve variables
• $trusted hash, Use trusted facts when available
• --explain (puppet lookup), Use explain to debug lookup interpolation

A

• acceptance testing, Acceptance Testing-Resource validation
  • confirming profile implementation with, Confirming Profile Implementation with Acceptance Tests
  • containers/virtualization for, Use containers or virtualization for acceptance testing
  • resource validation, Resource validation
  • simplifying with r10k, Simplifying Acceptance Testing
• access control lists (ACLs), The ACL type
• account defined type, The account defined type
• ACL types, The ACL type
• after attribute, The after attribute
• alias metaparameter, alias
• anchor pattern, Anchors
• anchor type, The anchor type
• Apache, Implement the smallest usable component
• application defaults, module layer and, Module layer: application defaults
• application logic, Application logic, Application Logic and Puppet Modules-Identifying site-specific data in Puppet modules
• archive type, The archive resource
• array-style resource declaration, Use Arrays for Similar Resources
• audit metaparameter, audit
• Augeas Providers, Augeas providers
• authentication database, Puppet as, The accounts hierarchies

B

• base profiles, avoiding, Avoid creating a base profile
• Beaker, Resource validation
• before metaparameter, Ordering metaparameters: before and require
• best practice, defined, What Is a Best Practice?
• branch-per-task/branch-per-issue deployment model, Single Branch (GitHub Flow)
  • (see also single branch (GitHub ...