Puppet Can i automatically generate puppet manifests from a puppet server

Question

Is there any way that could auto generate manifests from an existing puppet server? I need this coz I have a requirement to deploy a site to a virtual private server. how can I do this?

Answer 1

Yes, here is how you can do it. You can use puppet resource [type] for that.

To get a list of installed packages:

puppet resource package

Get a specific package with version:

puppet resource package httpd

Files:

puppet resource file /etc/httpd/conf.d/example.conf