The traditional way of managing systems with Puppet is to install Puppet agent on the nodes being managed and point those agents to a Puppet server (more details here). This approach works well for environments with tens or hundreds of nodes, but is an overkill for small environments with just a handful of nodes. Fortunately […]
If editing Puppet code and Hiera directly with puppetmaster feels too easy, you can complicate the Puppet workflow as much you like by adding more components to the palette. Adding the so called control repository and r10k to Puppet environment maintenance instantly adds several phases to your initially simple workflow. There are also benefits that […]
