Puppet most used resources types

In the Puppet manifests each resource has a resource type that describes the system that we want to manage, Puppet comes with resource types for system management, and many plugins are available to add even more. Some of the resources types are:

• File
• file { ‘/etc/modules’:
  ensure => file,
  content => “# Managed by Puppet!\n\ndrbd\n”,
  }
• Package
• package { ‘haproxy’:
  ensure => present,
  provider => ‘dpkg’,
  source => ‘/opt/packages/haproxy-1.5.1_amd64.dpkg’,
  }
• Service
• service { ‘count-logins’:
  provider => ‘base’,
  ensure => ‘running’,
  binary => ‘/usr/local/bin/cnt-logins’,
  start => ‘/usr/local/bin/cnt-logins — daemonize’,
  subscribe => File[‘/usr/local/bin/cnt-logins’],
  }
• Symbolic links
• file { ‘/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-puppet-lore.org’:
  ensure => ‘link’,
  target => ‘../sites-available/puppet-lore.org’,
  }
• Group and user
• group { ‘proxy-admins’:
  ensure => present,
  gid => 4002,
  }
  user { ‘devcfgc’:
  ensure => present,
  uid => 2014,
  home => ‘/home/devcfgc’
  managehome => true, # <- adds -m to useradd
  gid => 1000,
  shell => ‘/bin/zsh’,
  groups => [ ‘proxy-admins’ ],
  }
• Exec
• exec { ‘tar cjf /opt/packages/homebrewn-3.2.tar.bz2’:
  cwd => ‘/opt’,
  path => ‘/bin:/usr/bin’,
  creates => ‘/opt/homebrewn-3.2’,
  }
• Cron
• cron { ‘clean-files’:
  ensure => present,
  user => ‘root’,
  command => ‘/usr/local/bin/clean-files’,
  minute => ‘1’,
  hour => ‘3’,
  weekday => [ ‘2’, ‘6’ ],
  environment => ‘MAILTO=hello@devcfgc.com’,
  }
• Mount
• mount { ‘/media/gluster-data’:
  ensure => ‘mounted’,
  device => ‘gluster01:/data’,
  fstype => ‘glusterfs’,
  options => ‘defaults,_netdev’,
  dump => 0,
  pass => 0,
  }