Contents

1. Installing Puppet
2. Using Puppet
3. Executables
   • Daemons
   • Utilities
   • Documentation

Installing Puppet

Read the Installation Guide.

Using Puppet

See the list of guides and references, and information on specific executables that ship with Puppet below.

Executables

Daemons

• puppetmasterd: Puppet master daemon
• puppetd: Puppet client daemon

Utilities

• ralsh: Use the Puppet resource abstraction layer to directly interact with the system.
• filebucket: A stand-alone filebucket client for sending files to a local or central filebucket.

Documentation

• pi: Print help about puppet types on the console.
• puppetdoc: Generate in-depth puppet documentation (also see the online docs)