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Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide

Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : John Arundel
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Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide

Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide

4.5 (4)
By: John Arundel

Overview of this book

Puppet 4.10 Beginner’s Guide, Second Edition, gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 4.10, including Docker containers, Hiera data, and Amazon AWS cloud orchestration. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup. Whether you’re a developer, a system administrator, or you are simply curious about Puppet, you’ll learn Puppet skills that you can put into practice right away. With practical steps giving you the key concepts you need, this book teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more. Every example in this book deals with something real and practical that you’re likely to need in your work, and you’ll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions for what to type and what output you’ll see. All the examples are available in a GitHub repo for you to download and adapt for your own server setup.
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Creating EC2 instances with Puppet

Although you can manage many different types of AWS resources with Puppet, the most important is the EC2 instance, or virtual server. In this section, we'll see how to create your first EC2 instance.

Choosing an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

In order to run an EC2 instance, which is to say an AWS virtual machine, you need to choose which virtual machine to run out of the many thousands available. Each virtual machine snapshot is called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and has a unique ID. It's this ID which you will add to your Puppet manifest to tell it what kind of instance to start.

It doesn't matter much for the purposes of this example which AMI you choose, but we'll be using an official Ubuntu image. To find one, follow these steps:

  1. Browse to the following URL:

    https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

  2. In the Search: box, enter the following:

    us-east-1 xenial

  3. You should see a list of Ubuntu Xenial AMIs in the us-east-1 region of various...
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