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What is Puppet, at a high level?
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What is Puppet, at a high level?
What is "Puppet Bolt," and how does it differ from Puppet's traditional agent-based model?
What is the purpose of Puppet's "ensure" attribute, commonly seen on resource declarations like `package { "nginx": ensure => installed }` or `service { "nginx": ensure => running }`?
What does the Puppet "Roles and Profiles" design pattern aim to achieve?
What is a "Puppet provider," and how does it relate to a "Puppet resource type"?
What is Puppet's declarative DSL (Domain-Specific Language), and how does it fundamentally differ from Chef's approach of using plain Ruby?
What is Puppet Forge?
What is a "resource" in Puppet?
What is a Puppet "node definition," and what is it used for?
What does "idempotency" mean in the context of Puppet (and configuration management generally), and why does it matter?
What is the role of Puppet Server (formerly Puppet Master) in a traditional Puppet setup?