Basic tasks and concepts in Windows
This section is meant to help familiarize you with several common tasks used in Puppet Enterprise (PE) with Windows agents, and explain the concepts and reasons behind performing them.
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Practice tasks
In other locations in the documentation, these can be found as steps in tasks, but they are not explained as thoroughly. -
Understanding idempotency
A key feature of Puppet is its idempotency: the ability to repeatedly apply a manifest to guarantee a desired resource state on a system, with the same results every time. -
Additional command line tools
Once you understand how to write manifests, validate them, and usepuppet apply
to enforce your changes, you're ready to use commands such aspuppet agent
,puppet resource
, andpuppet module install
.