It maybe goes without saying that there's no reason to reinvent the wheel when you are authoring your Puppet modules. A few minutes in Puppet Forge (https://forge.puppet.com) can really save you days and days of editing. There are, at the time of writing, more than 5,000 Forge modules, so it makes a great deal of sense to leverage all that hard work done by the Puppet community. Search the Forge first for that bit of software; it's more than likely that something already exists.
In my experience, I have found there is often something that almost does the job. Maybe there's a module (usually an unsupported and unapproved one) that maybe, for example, performs the management for the software you require, but it's only for ...
