Recently, I have started to migrate my scripts to use Puppet. Everything from initial system provisioning to manual failover systems had been converted. Wee~

The idea behind Puppet is to consolidate and standardise configuration across multiple servers. By centralising configuration, a standard security and provisioning baseline is maintained. Configuration for each service can be standardised and reused across an entire infrastructure. Even better, puppet ensures the system remains as configured. Locally configured files are reverted, services are restarted, etc. The end result? Less headache and easier knowledge sharing.

Someone once commented about me using a "commandline webmin". I don't think Puppet is like webmin at all. Webmin pre-defines the fields for configuration. Puppet is, well, blank. It simply provides an API for defining my systems, and then helps me push/maintain it across the infrastructure.

Who says system administrators can't code?

Okay, back to coding...