In the last post, we built a Puppet master. The master is ready for agents to connect, but currently it doesn’t actually do very much when they do. Our site.pp manifest is very boring:

[root@puppet ~]# cat /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp
notify {"Agent connection is successful": }

All agents get the same manifest, and it’s just a notify statement. We want to do more than that, we want to actually manage some important configuration. Before we get into that, I want to mention a few basics that you may want to review on your own. We’ll touch on these items throughout this and future Puppet blogs, with the expectation that you’ll have read up on them already or will reference as needed.

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