Pulling Strings With Puppet - James Turnbull [56]
Node Inheritance and Variable Scope
Default Nodes
Virtual Resources
Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments .......................................................xiii
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Introducing Puppet ............................................. 1
What Is Puppet?
How Does Puppet work?
A Declarative Language
A Transactional Layer
The Future for Puppet
Web
Installing and Running Puppet
Installing Ruby
Installing Ruby and Ruby Libraries from Packages
Installing Facter
Installing Facter from Package
Installing RDoc
Installing Puppet
Installing Puppet by Package
Installing Puppet from a Ruby Gem
Getting Started with Puppet
Starting the Puppet Client
Signing Your Client Certificate
Running the Puppet Daemons
The [main] Configuration Namespace
Configuring puppetmasterd
Configuring puppetd
Configuring puppetca
Resources .............................................. 40
Speaking Puppet
Defining Configuration Resources
Resource Attributes
Resource Style
Resource Defaults
Collections of Resources
Classes Relationships
Class Inheritance
Definitions
Qualifying Definitions
Variable Scoping
Variables and Class Inheritance
Qualified Variables
Variables and Metaparameters
Arrays
Conditionals
Creating Nodes
Node Inheritance
Node Inheritance and Variable Scope
Default Nodes
Virtual Resources