Puppet 2.7 Cookbook

Generating manifests from a running system

While cft generates Puppet manifests from a system administrator's console session, puppet resource generates Puppet manifests from the existing configuration of a system. For example, you can have puppet resource generate a manifest that creates all the users found on the system. This is very useful for taking a snapshot of a working system and getting its configuration quickly into Puppet.

How to do it…

1. To generate the manifest for a particular user, run:

   # puppet resource user john
   user { 'john':
       password_min_age => '0',
       password_max_age => '99999',
       uid => '1002',
       password => '!',
       gid => '1001',
       groups => ['git'],
       ensure => 'present',
       comment => 'John Arundel',
       home => '/home/john',
    shell => ...