Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation

Establishing relationships among containers

Puppet's classes bear little or no similarity to classes that you find in object-oriented programming languages such as Java or Ruby. There are no methods or attributes. There are no distinct instances of any class. You cannot create interfaces or abstract base classes.

One of the few shared characteristics is the encapsulation aspect. Just as classes from OOP, Puppet's classes hide implementation details. To get Puppet to start managing a subsystem, you just need to include the appropriate class.

Passing events between classes and defined types

By sorting all resources into classes, you make it unnecessary (for your co-workers or other collaborators) to know about each single resource. This is beneficial. ...