Chapter 2. Creating your first manifests
Beginnings are such delicate times. | ||
| --Frank Herbert, 'Dune' | ||
In this chapter, you'll learn how to write your first manifest with Puppet, and how to put Puppet to work configuring a server. You'll also understand how Puppet compiles and applies a manifest. You'll see how to use Puppet to manage the contents of files, how to install packages, and how to control services.
Hello, Puppet – your first Puppet manifest
The first example program in any programming language, by tradition, prints hello, world. Although we can do that easily in Puppet, let's do something a little more ambitious, and have Puppet create ...
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