Puppet Technology Glossary

Dashboard

A web interface to parts of the Puppet Master

Facter

Program that returns data about the node.

Master

Puppet server, serves catalogs to clients.

Hiera

Hierarchical storage for Puppet parameters. To separate data from classes.

Plugin

Piece of Ruby code packaged along with plain Puppet code inside a module. Often stored under $module/lib

Pluginsync

Used to synchronize Puppet Plugins to clients. Enabled by default in Puppet 3 and higher.