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+Templates
+=========
+
+Puppet supports templates and templating via ERB, which is part of the Ruby
+standard library and is used for many other projects including Ruby on Rails.
+Templates allow you to manage the content of template files, for example
+configuration files that cannot yet be managed as a Puppet type. Learn more at
+http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Templating
+
+You can use templates like this:
+
+ class myclass {
+ package { mypackage: ensure => latest }
+ service { myservice: ensure => running }
+ file { "/etc/myfile":
+ content => template("mymodule/myfile.erb")
+ }
+ }
+
+The templates are searched for in:
+
+ $templatedir/mymodule/myfile.erb
+ $modulepath/mymodule/templates/myfile.erb