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I'm self-training on puppet and interested in writing up some Puppet-related topics in Q&A format for questions that took me a while to answer because I wasn't able to find a decent resource online.

Since puppet is multiplatform (even with Windows support) would it still be considered on-topic for this SE or would I need to post those over on ServerFault?

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  • Excellent. I'm looking forward to these questions! Commented Dec 26, 2014 at 11:14
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    Some context: Puppet - Puppet is an open source configuration management utility. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration.. Commented Dec 27, 2014 at 1:29

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Yes, absolutely. As long as something works on *nix, it's on topic. Whether it works on other systems as well or not is irrelevant.

If your questions are about using software X on a *nix platform, they are welcome here. If they are platform agnostic, Super User might be a better place for them.

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  • How do you mean "platform agnostic"? Most of the puppet stuff I would want to post is going to be applicable to most *nix platforms. Commented Dec 25, 2014 at 13:48
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    I mean that if your Q&As are equally applicable to *nix and Windows, they'd still be on topic but would probably be more so on Super User. If they are about using puppet on a nix platform, they are perfect for us. Commented Dec 25, 2014 at 15:07
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    Though puppet is platform agnostic, the use of puppet for specific *nix system configuration seems even more appropriate for unix.SE, but may also be appropriate for ServerFault. Commented Dec 30, 2014 at 18:01
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While such questions may be acceptable on Unix.SE, DevOps type questions are more at home on ServerFault. They currently have 1,175 questions tagged puppet.

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  • Interesting; there's only slightly more (1,420) questions tagged puppet on Stack Overflow. I would have thought there'd be much more. Commented Jan 1, 2015 at 1:28
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    There's a difference between writing puppet manifests and managing the puppet infrastructure and I'd guess that the first gets mostly to Unix.SE and the latter goes to ServerFault. Commented Jan 1, 2015 at 15:46

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