Using r10k
The Puppetfile
is a very good format to describe which modules you wish to include in your environment. Building upon the Puppetfile
is another tool, r10k. r10k is a total environment management tool. You can use r10k to clone a local Git repository into your environmentpath
and then place the modules specified in your Puppetfile
into that directory. The local Git repository is known as the master repository; it is where r10k expects to find your Puppetfile
. r10k also understands Puppet environments and will clone Git branches into subdirectories of your environmentpath
, simplifying the deployment of multiple environments. What makes r10k particularly useful is its use of a local cache directory to speed up deployments. Using a configuration ...
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