Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "Puppet can manage files on a node using the file resource"

A block of code is set as follows:

file { '/tmp/hello.txt':
  ensure  => file,
  content => "hello, world\n",
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

file { '/tmp/hello.txt':
  ensure  => file,
  content => "hello, world\n",
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

sudo puppet apply /vagrant/examples/file_hello.pp
Notice: Compiled catalog for localhost in environment production in 0.07 seconds

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "In the AWS console, select VPC from the Services menu".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.