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.
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 usually online there.
Relevant Links
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Available documentation on puppet. Including an Introduction, and Language & Type Library References.
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All of the cookbook recipes on the Puppet wiki.
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Puppet source code, Packages (RPMs, debs, etc.), and Ruby GEM packages.
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Puppet Git Repository
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Bug tickets, feature enhancements, and source browsing
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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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The Puppet users mailing list, for any and all Puppet discussion.
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The Puppet-dev mailing list, for all public discussions related to the development of puppet.
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A read-only list that gets a copy of all git commits.
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A read-only list that gets a copy of all trac changes.
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