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Separate puppet provider for Gentoo/SELinux?
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Sun 07 April 2013

While slowly transitioning my playground infrastructure towards Puppet, I already am in process of creating a custom provider for things such as services. Puppet uses providers as "implementations" for the functions Puppet needs. For instance, for the service type (which handles init script services), there are providers for RedHat, Debian …

Fiddling with puppet apply
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Wed 20 March 2013

As part of a larger exercise, I am switching my local VM set from a more-or-less scripted manual configuration towards a fully Puppet-powered one. Of course, it still uses a lot of custom modules and is most likely too ugly to expose to the wider internet, but it does seem …