Puppet is a great config management system
Handling SSL certificates is not a lot of fun, and while Puppet’s use of client certificates protects the server and all its deep, dark secrets very well from rogue clients,...
The topic of kickstarting and enabling puppet came up on et-mgmt-tools. In addition to what I’ve said previously on the subject, a few more tips: 1. Installing puppet in the...
Puppet stores configuration files for all its clients on a central fileserver, which by default is the same as the puppetmaster. If a manifest needs to refer to a file...
Sometimes it is necessary in a puppet manifest to run a command with exec every time puppet changes a file. The subscribe metaparameter is ideal for this purpose, since it...
A configuration management tool like [Puppet](http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet) ensures that the local configuration of a machine agrees with its configuration stored on a central server, and makes it possible to install packages,...
I’ve written up a detailed example of using Puppet to deploy and configure a database backed web application. Apart from discussing the ins and outs of using Puppet, the writeup...
A very simple problem in managing Fedora machines with Puppet is that of controlling which yum repositories the machines get their updates from. Puppet does not (yet) have a way...
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