Creating your own resource types
It's time to get creative. You'll know about various different resource types in Puppet: packages, files, users, and so on. Usually, you can do everything you need to do by using either combinations of these built-in resources, or a custom define that you can use more or less in the same way as a resource (see Chapter 4, Writing Better Manifests for information on define).
However, if you need to create your own resource type, Puppet makes it quite easy. The native types are written in Ruby, and you will need a basic familiarity with Ruby in order to create your own.
Let's refresh our memory on the distinction between types and providers. A type describes a resource and the parameters it can have (for example, the ...
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