The Puppet design philosophy (O'Reilly)
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."