Looks like you might want to start here:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/modules_fundamentals.html

Also check up on how to do hiera lookups from within puppet3.

Other than that, structuring your modules tends to be a bit site-dependent.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 08:38:03AM -0800, Peter Nijssen wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I started to use vagrant with [1]puphpet. Very nice. However, the gui of
>    puphpet gives me too few options, so I want to configure everything
>    myself.
>    So, I decided to write everything from scratch, using modules. Modules
>    like apache, mysql, php, phpmyadmin which are in the puppet forge etc etc.
>    Now I need to configure those parts like which mods enabled for apache.
>    Which vhost files. etc.
>    Everything is done in the main manifest file called site.pp. However, I
>    was wondering, does it really has to become one gigantic file?
>    Isn't it somehow better to split up? I noticed I can split up using
>    "import", but it's not really good practice apparently.
>    I guess it's neither a good practice to somehow write it down in the
>    modules itself. 
>    Or isn't it really common to use existing modules and just write your own?
>    If I look around at github for default boxes, I see a lot of people who
>    all wrote the apache part on their own for example.
>    Or do I have to write my own module, which splits everything up in
>    classes.
>    Basically what I want to achieve is that I seperate files where I can
>    configure apache, php, mysql etc etc. Or to hear what actually is best
>    practice. I am only going to use it for one OS, so it doesn't have to take
>    a lot of OS'es into account.
>    Thanks!
>    Peter
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