diff --git a/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/lib/puppet/type/sahara_cluster_template.rb b/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/lib/puppet/type/sahara_cluster_template.rb
index 40fb4bfdab..9d9714b4f7 100644
--- a/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/lib/puppet/type/sahara_cluster_template.rb
+++ b/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/lib/puppet/type/sahara_cluster_template.rb
@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ Puppet::Type.newtype(:sahara_cluster_template) do
   newproperty(:node_groups, :array_matching => :all) do
     desc 'The array of node groups for cluster'
     defaultto { fail 'node groups is required!' }
+    def insync?(is)
+      return false unless is.count == should.count
+
+      should.sort_by! { |n| n["name"] }
+      is.sort_by! { |n| n["name"] }
+      should.zip(is).each do |should_node,is_node|
+        should_node.keys.each do |field|
+          unless (is_node.has_key?(field) && should_node[field].to_s == is_node[field].to_s)
+            return false
+          end
+        end
+      end
+      return true
+    end
   end
 
   newproperty(:hadoop_version) do
diff --git a/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/spec/unit/puppet/provider/sahara_cluster_template/ruby_spec.rb b/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/spec/unit/puppet/provider/sahara_cluster_template/ruby_spec.rb
index 6f3fb56a82..c491185c82 100644
--- a/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/spec/unit/puppet/provider/sahara_cluster_template/ruby_spec.rb
+++ b/deployment/puppet/sahara_templates/spec/unit/puppet/provider/sahara_cluster_template/ruby_spec.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ describe Puppet::Type.type(:sahara_cluster_template).provider(:ruby) do
     provider
   end
 
+  let (:groups_property) do
+    resource.property(:node_groups)
+  end
+
+  let (:is_groups) do
+    [{"volume_local_to_instance"=>false, "availability_zone"=>nil,"updated_at"=>nil, "node_group_template_id"=>"d79d30d8-fac3-42c4-b8ff-f4c4d2269563",
+      "volumes_per_node"=>0, "id"=>"218b2274-efbf-4c1c-a8cf-58727ec4697a", "security_groups"=>nil, "shares"=>nil, "node_configs"=>{}, "auto_security_group"=>true,
+      "volumes_availability_zone"=>nil, "volume_mount_prefix"=>"/volumes/disk", "floating_ip_pool"=>"4dd3f47d-c85a-4649-b679-35ba2904fd0f", "image_id"=>nil,
+      "volumes_size"=>0, "is_proxy_gateway"=>false, "count"=>1, "name"=>"hdp-2-master", "created_at"=>"2016-02-07T21:47:29", "volume_type"=>nil,
+      "node_processes"=>["namenode", "resourcemanager", "oozie", "historyserver"], "flavor_id"=>"3", "use_autoconfig"=>true}]
+  end
+
   let(:cluster_templates_list) do
     [
     OpenStruct.new(
@@ -123,6 +135,10 @@ describe Puppet::Type.type(:sahara_cluster_template).provider(:ruby) do
       expect(provider.extract).to eq extracted_property_hash
     end
 
+    it 'node_groups are in sync' do
+      expect(groups_property.insync?(is_groups)).to be_truthy
+    end
+
     it 'can check if the cluster_template exists' do
       provider.extract
       expect(provider.exists?).to eq true