adrienthebo/puppet-alternatives — pull request #7 by jsosic (2014-05-14 09:26:17+00:00)
Title: prefetch existing resources from system

prefetch will, which given a list of resources, in one call return a set of provider instances filled with the value fetched from the real resource

http://www.masterzen.fr/2011/11/02/puppet-extension-point-part-2/