Puppet

Question 1

How does the Puppet architecture works?

Answer 1

It uses a client-server arch written in Ruby whereas Puppet Master contains all configurations and catalogs that Puppet Clients/Agents connect to in order to receive latest automations

Question 2

How Puppet makes automations?

Answer 2

It uses .pp files, Puppet DSL

Question 3

What are Manifests?

Answer 3

Manifests are automations written in .pp
Ex:
exec { ‘apt-update’:
command => ‘/usr/bin/apt-get update’
}
package { ‘mysql-server’:
require => Exec[‘apt-update’],
ensure => installed,
}
service { ‘mysql’:
ensure => running,
}

Question 4

What are Modules?

Answer 4

Remote manifests like apache clients and such

Question 5

What are Resources?

Answer 5

The basic manifests tasks