Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation

Examining the most notable resource types

To complete our tour of the basic elements of a manifest, let's take a closer look at the resource types that you have already used, and some of the more important ones that you have not yet encountered.

You probably already have a good feeling for the file type, which will ensure the existence of files and directories, along with their permissions. Pulling a file from a repository (usually, a Puppet module) is also a frequent use case, using the source parameter.

For very short files, it is more economic to include the desired content right in the manifest:

file { '/etc/modules':
  ensure  => file,
  content => "# Managed by Puppet!\n\ndrbd\n",
}

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