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cdist: For anyone looking for a tutorial this is (unfortunately all) that there is: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/man/2.0.4/man... More docs under: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/man/2.0.4/man...

puppet: Making the error messages a bit better and switching to ssh as a transport mechanism would make a lot of people happy.

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The docs at http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/man/2.0.4/man... are outdated, they mention a quickstart and a cdist-env that don't seem to exist: https://github.com/telmich/cdist/issues/6

Disclaimer: I work for Puppet Labs.

The error messages are getting much better - we have a newly-formed UX group that is working hard on the command line. If you haven't watched Randall Hansen's UX talk from PuppetConf it's here - http://bit.ly/zg5D0l [video - Youtube] - he goes quite a bit into where we're looking to improve.

SSH as a transport mechanism - can you provide some reasoning as to why that's an issue for you? Network/firewall concerns, access controls, or something else?

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