Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like packages, services, and files.
Puppet’s simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. Puppet is written entirely in “Ruby”(http://www.ruby-lang.org/).
Many general questions about Puppet and Reductive are answered in the FAQ, such as “How to get started quickly”, “How to contribute”, and “What is Puppet’s License? (GPL)”)
You can also often get good support on ``#puppet`` on irc.freenode.net; Puppet’s primary author, Luke Kanies, is often online there.
Relevant Links
- Documentation
Available documentation on puppet. Including an Introduction, and Language & Type Library References.
- Cookbook
All of the cookbook recipes on the Puppet wiki.
- Downloads
Puppet source code, Packages (RPMs, debs, etc.), and Ruby GEM packages.
- Source Code
Puppet Git Repository
- Bug Tracker
Bug tickets, feature enhancements, and source browsing
- Configuration Management Blog
A blog Luke Kanies is maintaining about the development process of Puppet.
Mailing Lists
To subscribe to any of these lists with a non-Google account, send an email to
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- Puppet Users
The Puppet users mailing list, for any and all Puppet discussion.
- Puppet Developer
The Puppet-dev mailing list, for all public discussions related to the development of puppet.
- Puppet Commits
A read-only list that gets a copy of all git commits.
- Puppet Bugs
A read-only list that gets a copy of all trac changes.