Chapter 1. Puppet Language and Style

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Adding a resource to a node
• Using Facter to describe a node
• Installing a package before starting a service
• Installing, configuring, and starting a service
• Using community Puppet style
• Creating a manifest
• Checking your manifests with Puppet-lint
• Using modules
• Using standard naming conventions
• Using inline templates
• Iterating over multiple items
• Writing powerful conditional statements
• Using regular expressions in if statements
• Using selectors and case statements
• Using the in operator
• Using regular expression substitutions
• Using the future parser