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You may have read some docs, or stopped by the #puppet IRC channel. You’ve likely read a blog post or two. You’ve probably run across the word idempotence or have been chastised for writing non-idempotent Puppet code with exec resources. But what exactly does that mean? Here’s a definition that... Read more…

Welcome back; gather ‘round. Today we’re going to talk about a topic we’ve all been wondering how to bring up. We’ll be talking about leakage–no, not that kind of leakage! (Those of you too young to get that joke are highly encouraged to not go look up the history of... Read more…

So now we’ve used Puppet to manage a file on our computer. The /etc/motd file is now owned by root and has a fun little sentence in it. We can write all we want out to that file. But sooner or later, we’re going to want to put something a... Read more…