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 Puppet code.
Here's what you need to do to prepare your system to use Blueprint.
Run the following command to install Blueprint; we'll use puppet resource here to change the state of the python-pip package:
[root@cookbook ~]# puppet resource package python-pip ensure=installed Notice: /Package[python-pip]/ensure: created package { 'python-pip': ensure => '1.3.1-4.el6', } [root@cookbook ~]# pip install blueprint Downloading/unpacking blueprint Downloading blueprint-3.4.2.tar.gz (59kB): 59kB downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package blueprint Installing collected packages: blueprint Running setup.py install for blueprint changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/blueprint from 644...