Question

What is resource declaration in puppet? How does it look, like can you please give an example? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Puppet code is composed primarily of resource declarations. A resource describes something about the state of the system, such as a certain user or file should exist, or a package should be installed. Here is an example of a user resource declaration:

user { 'mitchell':
  ensure     => present,
  uid        => '1000',
  gid        => '1000',
  shell      => '/bin/bash',
  home       => '/home/mitchell'
}