Profiles

A profile is a collection of technologies, brought together for a specific purpose.

ere a are some examples:

• a Wordpress Site
• a Ruby on Rails Application
• a Node.js Application

A profile's responsibility is too coordinate multiple pieces of technology. Not by managing them, but by delegating that responsibility to their specific modules.

Must of the time a profile will set up scaffolding for an application using that particular technology stack.

A word of warning

The next examples of profiles are meant to be used once per role. If your profile is used more than once per role Puppet will complain of not being able to re declare a resource. If this is your use case you should explore the option of using custom resources with define instead on class.

Please read on the "Defined resources"" section of the Puppetlabs site. [1]

[1] Language: Defined Resource Types: https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_defined_types.html#language:-defined-resource-types