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Overview In the introductory post about the new support for source => "http://..." parameters in Puppet’s file resource type, I promised a follow-up that would explain the technical details of the implementation. This is not that post. Instead, seeing as Puppet 4.4 will hopefully be released soon and make this feature available to you, I will explain the caveats in greater detail first and add some perspective on how to best circumvent them. [Read More]

Many users (myself included) would like to specify source => http://... for file resources in Puppet manifests. It turns out that the existing infrastructure in the Puppet core makes this quite easy to implement. File serving in Puppet Among the most basic functions of any configuration management system is the central maintenance and programmatic distribution of various configuration files. Data files such as binary applications or tarballs are frequently managed as well. [Read More]