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The lives of system administrators and in general individuals employed in IT’s operational sector often revolve around a series of repetitive tasks: configuring hosts, creating users, and managing applications, daemons, and services. Often these tasks are repeated many times in the life cycle of one host in order to add new configuration or remedy configuration that has changed through error, entropy, or development. These tasks can be an ineffective use of time and effort.
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© 2007 James Turnbull
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(2007). Introducing Puppet. In: Pulling Strings with Puppet. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0622-4_1
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