Now that we have a complete overview of the Puppet DSL and its concepts, it is time to look at the newest Puppet features, which were introduced with Puppet version 4. The parser, which compiles the catalog, was basically rewritten from scratch for better performance. The milestone release also added some missing functionality and coding principles.
Puppet 4 and newer versions do not only offer new functionality, but break with old practices and remove some functionality that is not considered best practice anymore. This necessitates that any existing manifest code needs proper testing, and potentially needs lots of changes to be compatible with Puppet 4.
Within this chapter, the following topics will be covered:
- Upgrading to Puppet 4
- Using the Puppet type system
- Learning lambdas and functions
- Creating Puppet 4 functions
- Leveraging the new template...
