Question

What are the key components of puppet?

Answer 1

These are the following key components of puppet:

1. Puppet master - Puppet master runs on the server and manages all the nodes.
2. Puppet Agent - Puppet agent runs on the client. they are the target machines here.
3. Config repository - This is where all the server related configurations and nodes are stored.
4. Facts - They are global variables obtaining important machine level information.
5. Catalog - All configurations that are written in puppet are converted to a compiled format called catalog.
6. Manifests - these are files that need to be checked and changed.
7. Class - Like other programming languages, even puppet has classes to organize its code better.
8. Resources - In puppet codes, the coding block that is defined by declaring resources where resources may represent packages, files, users, commands.
9. Nodes - All servers or clients that need to be managed are called nodes.​​