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Types and providers - Puppet Tutorial
From the course: Puppet Essential Training
Types and providers
- [Instructor] So far we've been using defined resource types and classes, which really provide a lot of functionality. In this lesson, we'll be looking at the layer below that, the system that actually provides the built-in resource types used by Puppet. There are two parts to a resource. First, there is the type definition. This is the file that describes the properties of the resource. What parameters it takes, et cetera. Second, a resource has one or more providers. A provider is what connects the abstract type to the real implementation. It's possible to have multiple providers for a single type, because each provider works for a different operating system. For example, the commands and system calls to create a directory in Windows are different than in Linux. So, even though there's one type for defining a file, there are multiple providers to create that file on the operating system. One nice thing about Puppet types and providers is that you can actually look at the code that…
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