Open source Puppet documentation
- Welcome to Puppet 6 documentation
- Release notes
- Getting started with Puppet
- Installing and upgrading
- Configuring Puppet
- Puppet settings
- Key configuration settings
- Puppet's configuration files
- puppet.conf: The main config file
- environment.conf: Per-environment settings
- fileserver.conf: Custom fileserver mount points
- puppetdb.conf: PuppetDB server locations
- hiera.yaml: Data lookup configuration
- autosign.conf: Basic certificate autosigning
- csr_attributes.yaml: Certificate extensions
- custom_trusted_oid_mapping.yaml: Short names for cert extension OIDs
- device.conf: Network hardware access
- routes.yaml: Advanced plugin routing
- Configuring Puppet Server
- Puppet Server's config files
- puppetserver.conf: Main config file
- auth.conf: Access control
- webserver.conf: Jetty web server config
- web-routes.conf: Mount points for component services
- global.conf: Trapperkeeper settings
- ca.conf: CA service access control (deprecated)
- master.conf: Authorization by HTTP header (deprecated)
- product.conf: Configuring Product-level Interactions (optional)
- logback.xml: Logging level and location
- Advanced logging configuration
- Bootstrap upgrade notes
- 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
- Environments
- Modules
- Puppet services and tools
- Puppet Server
- Index
- About Puppet Server
- Release notes
- Deprecated features
- Notable differences vs. the Apache/Passenger stack
- Compatibility with Puppet agent
- Installing Puppet Server
- Configuring Puppet Server
- Differing behavior in puppet.conf
- Using and extending Puppet Server
- Known issues and workarounds
- Administrative API endpoints
- CA v1 API
- Server-specific Puppet API endpoints
- Status API endpoints
- Metrics API endpoints
- 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
- 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
- Values and data types
- Templates
- Advanced constructs
- Details of complex behaviors
- Writing custom functions
- Hiera
- Facter
- 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
- Extensions for assigning classes to nodes
- Misc. references (settings, functions, etc.)
- Man pages
- HTTP API
- Certificate authority and SSL
- Adding file server mount points
- Puppet's internals
- Experimental features
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.