Generating manifests with other tools

If you want to quickly capture the complete configuration of a running system as a Puppet manifest, there are a couple of tools available to help. In this example, we'll look at Blueprint, which is designed to examine a machine and dump its state as the Puppet code.

Getting ready

Here's what you need to do to prepare your system to use Blueprint. On RHEL systems, the python-pip package is included in the EPEL repository. Use Puppet to install pip:

[root@cookbook ~]# puppet resource package epel-release ensure=installed 
Notice: /Package[epel-release]/ensure: created 
package { 'epel-release':
  ensure => '7-9',
}
[root@cookbook ~]# puppet resource package python...