This tutorial will help in understanding the building blocks of Puppet and how it works in an infrastructure environment. All the examples and code snippets used in this tutorial are tested.

Puppet follows the client-server model, where one machine in any cluster acts as the server, known as puppet master and the other acts as a client known as a slave on nodes.

This tutorial will help in understanding the building blocks of Puppet and how it works in an infrastructure environment. All the examples and code snippets used in this tutorial are tested.

Puppet helps us manage our infrastructure as code. This means we can automate things like configuration management and deployment.

Puppet is a configuration management tool developed by Puppet Labs in order to automate infrastructure management and configuration. Puppet is a very powerful tool which helps in the …

All the manifest files or configuration which are written in Puppet are first converted to a compiled format called catalog and later those catalogs are applied on the target machine.

Once we have Puppet installed on the system, the next step is to configure it to perform certain initial operations.

Puppet directly does not use the data, instead it makes use of facter data, Facter data is treated as global variable. The facts are then available as top level variable and the Puppet master …

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All the programs written in Puppet follow Puppet coding style. The core of Puppet is the way resources are declared and how these resources are representing their state.