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Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Thomas Uphill, John Arundel
Book Image

Puppet Cookbook - Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Thomas Uphill, John Arundel

Overview of this book

This book is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. It requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
11
Index

Introduction

Puppet is a useful tool by itself, but you can get much greater benefits by using Puppet in combination with other tools and frameworks. We'll look at some ways of getting data into Puppet, including custom Facter facts, external facts, and tools to generate Puppet manifests automatically from the existing configuration.

You'll also learn how to extend Puppet by creating your own custom functions, resource types, and providers; how to use an external node classifier script to integrate Puppet with other parts of your infrastructure; and how to test your code with rspec-puppet.