In this chapter, we took a look at Puppet Tasks and Puppet Discovery. Bolt and Puppet Tasks allow us to perform remote ad hoc commands on target machines. We can parameterize these ad hoc commands and build tasks that are highly shareable actions in our organization. We can even chain together these tasks as Puppet Plans to build more complex actions that we can share across our infrastructure. We inspected Puppet Discovery, installed it on our local system, and viewed the existing infrastructure. We learned how to view and deploy agents, as well as manage services with Puppet Discovery.

We will cover virtual and exported resources in Puppet in the next chapter.