In this chapter, we thoroughly covered the basics of Puppet, such as how to run Puppet on the command line, and how to use, generate, and edit manifests. We also learned how to get the development environment up and running quickly with a little installation effort using VirtualBox.

In the next chapter, we will be adding a little bit more functionality to VirtualBox, and then start experimenting with the new type of Puppet resources; mainly, let's take a look at how to remove resources with Puppet. This will contribute toward the goal, which is to build a Puppet-managed environment that consists of multiple virtual machines.