1. Using Puppet to Perform Configuration Management in Oracle Solaris 11.4
  2. Using Puppet to Manage System Configuration in Oracle Solaris
  3. Puppet Features in Oracle Solaris
  4. Puppet Utilities

Puppet Utilities

The Puppet package includes the following utilities:

Facter

Puppet uses Facter to discover facts about a particular system, such as OS type, CPUs, or memory size. Facter gathers and sends system information to the Puppet Server, which compiles the information into catalogs. A catalog describes the system state for a specific set of resources and lists all of the resources and resource dependencies to manage. See Gathering Information About a System by Using Facter and Facter documentation on the Puppet web site.

Hiera

Hiera is a cross-platform, key-value lookup tool that you can use to manage configuration data. Using Hiera to maintain site-specific data rather than using a Puppet manifest avoids repetition and enables you to create a more generic type of manifest that you can reuse for multiple systems.

Puppet classes can request required data and use Hiera to act as a site-wide configuration file. When Hiera is loaded, Puppet uses this Hiera configuration file instead of the /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/hiera.yaml global file. See Hiera documentation on the Puppet web site.