The best way to create and distribute a new custom type is to place it into a module, in the puppet/type subdirectory of the lib directory, and it will then be distributed to the agent machine via pluginsync, as we already saw with custom facts in the previous section.

The filename should match the name of the type under development, as shown in the following code:

 <modulepath>/lib/puppet/type/mynewtype.rb
 
 Puppet::Type.newtype(:mynewtype) do
 ...
 end