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Additionally these tools can take a host in an unknown state and turn it into what you want.

• stevekemp 14y ago
  With the obvious caveat that you must have written the rules/policies/recipes for that to happen. (I've seen some cfengine repositories, for example, that assume Apache is present and just start tweaking the configuration files. If you're doing it properly you'd want to define a rule initially "install apache". That's why it is often instructive to test out your rules on a pristine/virgin installation of your preferred distribution to see that it works from start to finish.)