O’Reilly has posted an excerpt from Puppet best practices, an upcoming book about the Puppet system configuration tool. It’s a good place to look for those wanting an introduction to how Puppet works. “Puppet can be somewhat alien to technologists who have a background in automation scripting. Where most of our scripts scripts are procedural, Puppet is declarative. While a declarative language has many major advantages for configuration management, it does impose some interesting restrictions on the approaches we use to solve common problems.“
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