It's a great idea to put your Puppet manifests in a version control system such as Git or Subversion (Git is the de facto standard for Puppet). This gives you several advantages:
You can undo changes and revert to any previous version of your manifest
You can experiment with new features using a branch
If several people need to make changes to the manifests, they can make them independently, in their own working copies, and then merge their changes later
You can use the
git logfeature to see what was changed, and when (and by whom)
In this section, we'll import your existing manifest files into Git. If you have created a Puppet directory in a previous section use that, otherwise, use your existing manifest directory.
In this example, we'll create a new Git repository on a server accessible from all our nodes. There are several steps we need to take to have our code held in a Git repository:
Install Git on a central server.
Create a user to run Git and...