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Serving Files with Puppet - Part 1 - File Resource Source Attribute

The first in a 3 part series, where Adrian Parreiras Horta, Support Engineer at Puppet, takes us through the different methods of serving files with Puppet, and how this impacts the performance of the Puppet ecosystem. Part 1 discusses the different source attributes of the Puppet File resource.

Serving Files with Puppet - Part 2 - Implications and Performance

The second in a three-part series, where Adrian Parreiras Horta, Support Engineer at Puppet, takes us through the different methods of serving files with Puppet, and how this impacts the performance of the Puppet ecosystem. Part 2 discusses the implications on performance for the methods previously discussed.

How certificates work in Puppet

This video gives you a basic introduction to certificates and explains how they’re used to secure Puppet communications. Certificates help to provide secure connections between different parts of your infrastructure as those parts communicate with each other. When you run the agent for the first time, it submits a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) to the primary server. Then the CSR is reviewed by the Puppet administrator and either accepted or denied.