= Web Request Puppet Resource Type and Provider =

This Puppet module adds a new resource type and provider allowing the end-user to invoke http get, post, put, and delete requests right from a Puppet manifest. To use this drop the module into your puppet module path and invoke it like so:

web_request{ “bing-search”: get => ‘http://www.bing.com’, parameters => { ‘q’ => “my query” }, returns => ‘200’ }

This will issue a get request to bing.com for the specified query, verifying the http return status is 200.

There are many other various ways to customize the request, control if/when it is invoked, and verify what is returned, see the actual resource type for more information

For sample usage see aeolus-configure here: https://github.com/aeolusproject/aeolus-configure