Chapter 9. Managing files with templates
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. | ||
| --Alan Perlis | ||
In this chapter, we'll learn about an important and powerful feature of Puppet: the template. We'll see how to use a simple template to interpolate the values of Puppet variables, facts, and Hiera data into a file, and we'll also introduce more complex templates using iteration and conditional statements to generate dynamic configuration files.
What are templates?
In previous chapters, we've used Puppet to manage the contents of files on the node by various means, including setting the contents to a literal string using the content attribute, ...
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