A workflow is a series of processes that work flows through, from initiation to completion. As the Puppet environments become more complex in an organization, a trusted and shared workflow will make sharing work easier. A Puppet workflow should allow us to access code, edit code, test our code, and, eventually, deploy our code back to the Puppet Master. Although it is not required, it is highly recommended that an organization or group of workers adopt a shared workflow. A shared workflow possesses a few main benefits, as follows:
- A measurable ease of use
- Rapid feedback
- Ease of onboarding
- Quality control
The primary reason to design and begin a workflow is to provide for ease of use. A team should design a workflow around their code base, allowing them to understand how to retrieve specific code, how to edit that code, and the impacts of the new edits. A workflow also provides a standardized way of packaging the code, to be delivered and used by the existing code base...