Chapter 2. Creating your first manifests

Beginnings are such delicate times.

--Frank Herbert, 'Dune'

In this chapter, you'll learn how to write your first manifest with Puppet, and how to put Puppet to work configuring a server. You'll also understand how Puppet compiles and applies a manifest. You'll see how to use Puppet to manage the contents of files, how to install packages, and how to control services.