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Puppet

Category
Infrastructure and DevOps
Latest
8.18.0
Released
Apr 10, 2026
Docs outline
13 sections

Official docs outline

help.puppet.com
  1. Architecture

    Agent and server architecture, catalog compilation and the agent run.

  2. Puppet Language

    Language syntax, resource declarations, expressions and data types.

  3. Resources and Types

    Resource types, providers, attributes and relationships.

  4. Classes and Defined Types

    Classes, defined types and parameters.

  5. Variables and Facts

    Variables, scope and facts from Facter.

  6. Modules

    Module structure, layout and reuse.

  7. Hiera

    Hierarchical data lookup and configuration data separation.

  8. Environments

    Environments for separating code and testing changes.

  9. Templates

    EPP and ERB templates.

  10. Catalog Compilation and Ordering

    Resource relationships, ordering and metaparameters.

  11. Certificates and SSL

    Agent certificates, CA and signing.

  12. Data Types

    Puppet data types such as strings, numbers, arrays, hashes and the type system.

  13. Conditional Statements

    if, unless, case and selector expressions in the Puppet language.

Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.

Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
8 Apr 21, 2023 8.18.0 Supported
7 Nov 13, 2020 7.35.0 Ended Apr 30, 2025
6 Sep 18, 2018 6.29.0 Ended Feb 1, 2023
5 Jun 27, 2017 5.5.22 Ended Jan 1, 2021
4 Apr 8, 2015 4.10.13 Ended Oct 1, 2018
3 Sep 28, 2012 3.8.7 Ended Jan 1, 2017

Source: endoflife.date

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