Ivan’s Reviews > Managing Infrastructure with Puppet: Configuration Management at Scale > Status Update

You can define client node names in the /etc/puppet/autosign.conf file in
the format agenthost.example.com or even *.example.com. Names
matching these patterns will be signed automatically by the master.

When I declare a capitalized file resource with no title, the parameters I specify
for it will become the default for that resource type

"In its default
configuration, the agents work in a polling mode and check in for catalog updates every
30 minutes." - wow, I've already discovered push model via 'puppet kick'