Puppet: System Configuration Management Framework

Puppet is a tool that allows one to manage many systems via a central master node.

Tasks that Puppet can do

File Serving Configuration

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FileServingConfiguration

In a nutshell we mean simply the ability to copy files over from a central location to clients.

External Links

• http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_puppet_on_ubuntu
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetFreeBSD
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetSolaris which describes the blastwave setup and describes how to integrate Puppet with Jumpstart, Sun's automatic operating system install tool.
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetMacOSX
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#does-puppet-run-on-windows
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/UsingStoredConfiguration - storing system configuration in a relational database using ruby on rails framework
• http://people.redhat.com/dlutter/puppet-app.html - detailed example
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/CfengineVsPuppet
• http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FileServingConfiguration

-- WalterTautz - 05 Jun 2008