At work I recently started to use masterless puppet to manage a working environment (e.g. directory structure, shell configuration, packages installed into our

At work I recently started to use masterless puppet to manage a working environment (e.g. directory structure, shell configuration, packages installed into our own RPM database) on compute clusters we use but don't have root access to. It was much easier to get working than I expected. Looking at the source for rump (https://github.com/railsmachine/rump https://github.com/railsmachine/rump) was helpful when determining the proper directory structure and puppet command line options.