Managing essential configuration with Puppet

Open source Puppet documentation

Welcome to Puppet 6 documentation
- Puppet architecture
- The puppet-agent package and version numbers
Release notes
- Puppet release notes
- Puppet known issues
- Agent release notes
Getting started with Puppet
- Managing NTP
- Managing DNS
- Managing sudo
- Manage firewall rules
Installing and upgrading
- System requirements
- Using the Puppet platform
- Installing Puppet
- Installing agents
- Upgrading
Configuring Puppet
- Puppet settings
- Key configuration settings
- Puppet's configuration files
- Configuring Puppet Server
- Checking the values of settings
- Editing settings on the command line
- Complete list of settings (configuration reference)
- Settings that differ under Puppet Server
Important directories and files
- Code and data directory (codedir)
- Config directory (confdir)
- Main manifest directory
- The modulepath
- SSL directory (ssldir)
- Cache directory (vardir)
Environments
- About environments
- Creating environments
- Environment isolation
Modules
- Module fundamentals
- Plug-ins in modules
- Module cheat sheet
- Installing and managing modules from the command line
- Beginner's guide to writing modules
- Module metadata
- Documenting modules
- Documenting modules with Puppet Strings
- Puppet Strings style guide
- Publishing modules
- Contributing to Puppet modules
Puppet services and tools
- Puppet commands
- Running Puppet commands on Windows
- Puppet master
  - Puppet Server
- Puppet agent on *nix systems
- Puppet agent on Windows
- Puppet apply
- Puppet device
Puppet Server
- Index
- About Puppet Server
- Release notes
- Deprecated features
- Compatibility with Puppet agent
- Installing Puppet Server
- Configuring Puppet Server
- Differing behavior in puppet.conf
- Using and extending Puppet Server
- Known issues and workarounds
  - Known issues
  - SSL problems with load-balanced PuppetDB servers (“Server Certificate Change” error)
- Administrative API endpoints
  - Environment cache
  - JRuby pool
- CA v1 API
- Server-specific Puppet API endpoints
- Status API endpoints
  - Status services
- Metrics API endpoints
  - v1 metrics
  - v2 (Jolokia) metrics
- Developer information
The Puppet language
- Visual index
- Basics
- The Puppet language style guide
- Handling file paths on Windows
- Variables
- Resources
- Resources (advanced)
- Relationships and ordering
- Classes
- Defined resource types
- Bolt tasks
- Type aliases
- Expressions and operators
- Conditional statements and expressions
- Function calls
- Docs for built-in functions
- Node definitions
- Comments
- Facts and built-in variables
- Reserved words and acceptable names
- Writing functions (Puppet language)
- Custom resources
  - Develop types and providers with the Resource API
  - Resource API reference
  - Low-level method for developing types and providers
    - Type development
    - Provider development
- Values and data types
  - Strings
  - Numbers
  - Booleans
  - Arrays
  - Hashes
  - Regular expressions
  - Sensitive
  - Time-related data types
  - Undef
  - Default
  - Resource and class references
  - Resource types
  - Data type syntax
  - Abstract data types
- Templates
  - Using templates
  - Creating templates using Embedded Puppet
  - Creating templates using Embedded Ruby
- Advanced constructs
  - Iteration and loops
  - Lambdas
  - Resource default statements
  - Resource collectors
  - Virtual resources
  - Exported resources
  - Tags
  - Run stages
- Details of complex behaviors
  - Containment of resources
  - Scope
  - Namespaces and autoloading
Writing custom functions
- Custom functions
- Custom Puppet functions
- Writing custom functions in Ruby
- Secrets store integrations and agent-side data retrieval
- Write a Puppet function to store secrets
Hiera
- About Hiera
- Getting started with Hiera
- Configuring Hiera
- Creating and editing data
- Looking up data with Hiera
- Writing new data backends
- Upgrading to Hiera 5
Facter
- Facter release notes
- Core facts
- Custom facts
- Custom facts walkthrough
- External facts
- Configuring Facter with facter.conf
Resource types
- All resource types
- Core types cheat sheet
- Optional resource types for Windows
- exec
- Exec tips and examples for Windows
- file
- File tips and examples for Windows
- filebucket
- group
- User and group tips and examples for Windows
- index
- notify
- package
- Package tips and examples for Windows
- resources
- schedule
- service
- Service tips and examples
- stage
- tidy
- user
- User and group tips and examples for Windows
Reports: Tracking Puppet's activity
- About reporting
- Built-in report processors
- Writing custom report processors
- Puppet::Transaction::Report object format
Extensions for assigning classes to nodes
- External node classifiers
Misc. references (settings, functions, etc.)
- Settings (configuration reference)
- Functions
- Metaparameters
- Built-in report processors
- Indirections and termini
- Ruby API for developing extensions
Man pages
- Index
- Core tools
- Occasionally useful
- Niche
HTTP API
- Index
- PSON
- Puppet v3 API
- CA v1 API
- Schemas (JSON)
Certificate authority and SSL
- Puppet Server CA commands
- Intermediate CA
- Autosigning certificate requests
- CSR attributes and certificate extensions
- Regenerating certificates in a Puppet deployment
- External CA
- External SSL termination with Puppet Server
Adding file server mount points
Puppet's internals
- Agent-master HTTPS communications
- Catalog compilation
Experimental features
- Msgpack support

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Try out some common configuration tasks to see how you can use Puppet to manage your IT infrastructure. These instructions assume you have installed Puppet and at least one agent, and that you work through them in the order presented.