“From a drop of water…a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

— Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet

In a similar fashion, any astute inquirer may start with a single piece of creative output and find their bearings in an entirely new field of thinking. Today, that inquirer looks at Puppet, a software system—or, in its own words, a “system configuration management tool.”