3.4. Puppet Infrastructure

The following terms defined live in category Puppet Infrastructure.

client

Client is a functional keyword; With client, we describe a node that is managed by Puppet.

default node manifest

A default node manifest is a magic node manifest that applies to any node that does not have a matching node manifest.

If node1.example.org polls the puppet master, but no node manifest has been defined for node1.example.org, and there is no matching node manifest, the puppet master can fall back to the default node manifest. A default node manifest could look like, for example:

node default {
    include puppet::client
}

Now, all clients that do not have a specific node manifest will include the puppet::client class from the puppet module.

master

node manifest

A node manifests describes the desired state of a node by including classes, definitions and resources. A simple example node manifest would look like the following:

node 'node1.example.org' {
    include webserver
}