Externalizing Puppet Configuration
Spencer Krum, William Van Hevelingen, Ben Kero, James Turnbull, Jeffery McCune · Apress eBooks · 2013
In Chapter 2 we talked about the ways you can define your hosts or nodes to Puppet. We talked about specifying them in a variety of forms as node statements in your Puppet manifest files. We also mentioned that Puppet has the capability to store node information in external sources. This avoids the need to specify large numbers of nodes manually in your manifest files, a solution that is time-consuming and not scalable. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.