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Mastering Puppet

By : Thomas Uphill
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Mastering Puppet

By: Thomas Uphill

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Mastering Puppet
Thomas Uphill
Jul, 2014 | 280 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Puppet
Mastering Puppet
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Dealing with Load/Scale
Dealing with Load/Scale
Divide and conquer
Conquer by dividing
Summary
2
Organizing Your Nodes and Data
Organizing Your Nodes and Data
Getting started
Organizing the nodes with ENC
Hiera
Summary
3
Git and Environments
Git and Environments
Environments
Git
Git for everyone
Summary
4
Public Modules
Public Modules
Getting modules
Using GitHub for public modules
Modules from the Forge
Using librarian
Using r10k
Using modules
Summary
5
Custom Facts and Modules
Custom Facts and Modules
Module manifest files
Custom facts
Summary
6
Custom Types
Custom Types
Parameterized classes
Defined types
Types and providers
Summary
7
Reporting and Orchestration
Reporting and Orchestration
Turning on reporting
Syslog
Store
IRC
Foreman
Puppet Dashboard
Summary
8
Exported Resources
Exported Resources
Configuring puppetdb – using the forge module
Manually installing puppetdb
Exported resource concepts
Simple example: a host entry
Resource tags
Putting it all together
Summary
9
Roles and Profiles
Roles and Profiles
Design pattern
Creating an example CDN role
Dealing with exceptions
Summary
10
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Connectivity issues
Catalog failures
Debugging
Summary
Index
Index

About the Author

Thomas Uphill is an RHCA who has been using Puppet since version 0.24. He has been a system administrator for nearly 20 years, more than 10 of which have been with Red Hat Linux and its derivatives. He has presented tutorials on Puppet at LOPSA-East and has spoken at PuppetConf 2013. He enjoys teaching others how to use Puppet to automate as much system administration tasks as possible. When he's not at the Seattle Puppet Meetup, you can find him at http://ramblings.narrabilis.com.

I am very thankful to my friend and colleague Joško Plazonić for introducing me to Puppet and getting me started on this journey. I would like to thank my wife Priya Fernandes for putting up with the long nights and weekends it took to finish this book. Thanks to Nate Tade for his encouragement while I worked on this book, the rest of my team for trying my crazy ideas, and Shawn Foley for a few not-so-crazy ideas. Thanks to Theresa, David, and Ben for their support.

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