Updated Cookbook for Puppet 5.
This is the Fourth edition of the Cookbook.

Available from Packt or Amazon

Augeas is a great tool for changing only parts of a configuration file. It has a few problems though, it's slow and hard to learn and does lack some documentation. That said, unless you can use file_line or inifile, Augeas is the only game in town. The alternative is an exec with sed or awk or something terrible...

A talk I gave at LISA2015. A gentle introduction to Puppet for the complete beginner. This talk assumes no knowledge of Puppet and is intended for the complete beginner. Slides available here. Support files are available here.

My puppet book was released July 25th on Packtpub.com

You can also grab a copy from Amazon.

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