Is it possible to somehow find the source files of the applied Puppet classes of a client?
I have access to a server that is managed by Puppet and would like to take a peek inside the source class files to learn from them. I already managed to get a list of all the applied classes with cat $(puppet config print classfile), but I cannot find any *.pp files on the system.
In a master - agent setup, the Puppet classes are not available on the agent, the agent requests a catalog of "how the system should look", and then applies it.
This can include using locally cached Ruby code, which are pulled by "plugin sync" to a local directory, only readable by root/puppet. Either /var/lib/puppet or /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache.
Here are a few resources:
