User:Bking/Notes/Ansible to Puppet

My rough notes, don't trust!

Puppet	Ansible	Notes
Resource	Built-in Module
Class	Role
Role (special type of class)	Role
Profile (special type of class)	Role
PuppetLabs	Galaxy	Community Repos for Modules/Roles

puppet resources ≈ ansible modules

puppet manifests ≈ ansible task lists

puppet class ≈ ansible playbook

puppet module ≈ ansible role

puppet profile ≈ ???

Directory Layout

Puppetlabs-apache module on the left, Geerlingguy's Apache role on the right

Puppet Module

Ansible Role

puppetlabs-apache ├── data ├── examples ├── files ├── lib │   └── puppet │   ├── functions │   │   └── apache │   └── provider ├── manifests │   ├── confd │   ├── default_mods │   ├── fastcgi │   ├── mod │   │   └── ssl │   ├── mpm │   ├── peruser │   ├── security │   └── vhost ├── readmes ├── spec │   ├── acceptance │   ├── classes │   │   └── mod │   ├── defines │   ├── fixtures │   │   ├── files │   │   ├── site_apache │   │   │   └── templates │   │   └── templates │   ├── functions │   ├── type_aliases │   └── util │   └── _resources ├── tasks ├── templates │   ├── confd │   ├── fastcgi │   ├── mod │   │   └── jk │   └── vhost ├── types │   └── vhost └── util └── _resources

geerlingguy.apache ├── defaults ├── handlers ├── meta ├── molecule │   └── default ├── tasks ├── templates └── vars