Configuring Puppet's file server
Deploying configuration files is one of the most common uses of Puppet. Most non-trivial services need some kind of configuration file, and you can have Puppet push it to the client using a file
resource as shown in the following code:
file { "/opt/nginx/conf.d/app_production.conf": source => "puppet:///modules/app/app_production.conf", }
The source
parameter works like this: the first part after puppet:///
is assumed to be the name of a mount point, and the remainder is treated as a path to the file as shown.
puppet:///<mount point>/<path>
Usually the value of <mount point>
is modules
, as in the preceding example. In this case, Puppet will look for the file in:
manifests/modules/app/files/app_production.conf
modules ...
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