Puppet Control Repository: Your Source of Truth for Infrastructure Management

Perforce Puppet

Sep 11, 2025

Learn the fundamentals of Puppet's Control Repository with Margaret and Tony in this comprehensive walkthrough. See how Control Repos serve as your single source of truth for managing configuration across your entire infrastructure, driving collaboration and standardization while simplifying code deployments.

Tony Green demonstrates the essential structure of a Control Repo, breaking down key components like the Puppet file, environment configuration, Hiera data, and the powerful roles and profiles pattern. Whether you're new to Puppet or looking to strengthen your understanding, this video provides practical insights into organizing and managing your Puppet code effectively.

Key Moments:

0:00 Introduction to Control Repository

2:20 Locations within the Control Repo

2:47 Environment.conf file explained

3:36 Hiera configuration overview

4:27 Understanding the Puppet file and module dependencies

6:56 Manifests directory and Site.pp classification

8:20 Site modules: roles and profiles deep dive

10:35 Control Repo real life example

13:00 Wrap-up

Related Resources:
Control Repo Documentation: https://ter.li/vj0xpn
Puppet Enterprise: https://ter.li/eogo2un
Puppet Core: https://ter.li/nxx2g9

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