How do I automate the process of puppet manifest generation

Question

How can I provision my system such that it automatically generates puppet manifests from an existing system?

Answer 1

You can use puppet resource [type] for this purpose.

• 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