One of the fundamental issues that I’ve encountered in all of the puppet managed environments is that people would remove resources from the configuration witho

One of the fundamental issues that I’ve encountered in all of the puppet managed environments is that people would remove resources from the configuration without first explicitly setting them to “absent”, effectively leaving them in an unmanaged state of the previously management configuration. If that state differs from the default, a new machine would end up with a different configuration, potentially breaking things.