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# Puppet (tools for software configuration management) — Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, 'Puppet competence' isn’t about *becoming* a systems administrator; it's about automating the repetitive parts of getting your code deployed and running consistently across environments (dev, staging, production). Think beyond just installing packages. You'll use Puppet to define the desired state of servers – things like user accounts, firewall rules, specific software versions, even file content – as *code*. This means you treat infrastructure configuration like application code: version controlled, tested, and deployable. Typical tasks involve writing 'manifests' (Puppet’s configuration files) that describe these states, testing those manifests locally or in a CI/CD pipeline, and then applying them to servers using Puppet Agent.

## Weitere Anreicherung

Stage-2 source for future practitioner grounding: arXiv cs.SE (software-engineering preprints).
