Creating files from templates with Puppet

To utilise a templates when creating new files we can issue something like: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp

 file { '/etc/issue':
    ensure  => present,
    owner   => 'root',
    group   => 'root',
    mode    => 0644,
    content => template($module_name/issue.erb),
  }

The source / content must be stored within a puppet module - so in the case we were using Saz's SSH module - we would place the template in:

/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/ssh/templates

touch /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/ssh/templates/issue.erb

and the site.pp file would look something like:

 file { '/etc/issue':
    ensure  => present,
    owner   => 'root',
    group   => 'root',
    mode    => 0644,
    content => template($ssh/issue.erb),
  }

Reload the puppet server:

sudo service puppetserver reload

and pull down the configuration on the client:

puppet agent -t