Submitted by mig5 on Tue, 18/10/2011 - 18:42
During a rather boring conference a few weeks back, I decided to convert my own infrastructure from 'standalone puppet' (that is, a set of standalone puppet manifests that were executed by a basic shell script on each server I managed) to the 'client -> server' or 'puppetmaster' model (whereby a central puppet daemon controls the manifests, and servers connect to it for updates as 'clients'.)
You can read more about the different models here.