You can run Puppet in a decentralised way: sudo puppet apply --verbose --debug --modulepath=./system system.pp You can also use BASH/Python whatever with

You can run Puppet in a decentralised way: sudo puppet apply --verbose --debug --modulepath=./system system.pp You can also use BASH/Python whatever with Puppet and still take advantage of Puppet's declarative semantics if that's what you need: exec { "install_node": require => Package[["build-essential", "openssl", "libssl-dev", "pkg-config"]], command => "${settings::modulepath}/main/install_node.sh v0.12.7", creates => "/usr/local/bin/node", logoutput => true, timeout => 1800 }