Puppet : What, Why & How

What's the intention?

• To help the sysadmin community to build and share tools.

 Why use Puppet?

• Provides a powerful framework to simplify the technical tasks that sysadmins need to perform.
• Sysadmin work is written as Puppet’s custom language code which is shareable and reusable.
• Written as a comprehensive CM(configuration management) tool.

How to implement the architecture.

A simple star topology architecture as follow can be a good point to start
- A versioning server is required to assist in the CM.
- One server as the master Puppet Server.
- Other client server running the puppetd agent.