Puppet Types and Providers

Table of contents

1. Puppet Types and Providers
2. Preface
   1. Who Is This Book For?
   2. What Does This Book Cover?
   3. Resources
   4. Conventions Used in This Book
   5. Using Code Examples
   6. Safari® Books Online
   7. How to Contact Us
   8. Acknowledgement
3. 1. Puppet Resources
   1. Resource Characteristics
      1. Declarative
      2. Idempotent
      3. Unique
   2. Resource Model
      1. Types
      2. Providers
   3. The puppet resource Command
      1. Retrieving Resources
      2. Modifying Resources
      3. Discover All Resources
   4. Noop Mode
   5. Catalogs
      1. Dependencies
      2. Catalog as a Graph
         1. Directed
         2. Acyclical
   6. Conclusion
4. 2. Types
   1. Defining Puppet Types
   2. Attributes
      1. Namevars
      2. Properties
      3. The ensure Property
      4. Parameters
   3. Default Values
   4. Input Validation
      1. Validate
      2. newvalues
   5. munge
   6. AutoRequire
   7. Arrays
   8. Inline Documentation
   9. Conclusion
5. 3. Providers
   1. Creating a Provider
   2. Suitability
      1. confine
         1. Fact confinement
         2. File confinement
         3. Feature confinement
         4. Boolean confinement
      2. defaultfor
      3. commands
   3. Properties and Providers
      1. ensure Property
         1. exists? method
         2. Creating/Destroying Resources
      2. Managing Properties
   4. Discovering and Prefetching Resources
      1. Discovery with self.instances
      2. The Property Hash
      3. Query All Resources
      4. Prefetching Managed Resources
      5. Generated Property Methods
      6. Managing a Resource
      7. Flush
      8. Purging Resources
      9. Putting It All Together
   5. Conclusion
6. 4. Advanced Types and Providers
   1. Refresh
   2. Features
   3. Code Reuse
      1. Parent Providers
      2. Shared Libraries
   4. Customizing Event Output
   5. Now What?
7. A. Installing Puppet
   1. Installing Ruby
   2. Installing Facter and Puppet
8. B. Modules
9. C. Troubleshooting and Debugging
10. Colophon
11. Copyright