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Puppet 5 Essentials - Third Edition

By : Felix Frank
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Puppet 5 Essentials - Third Edition

By: Felix Frank

Overview of this book

Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important to implement scaleable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the system that runs it. This book gets you started quickly with Puppet and its tools in the right way. It highlights improvements in Puppet and provides solutions for upgrading. It starts with a quick introduction to Puppet in order to quickly get your IT automation platform in place. Then you learn about the Puppet Agent and its installation and configuration along with Puppet Server and its scaling options. The book adopts an innovative structure and approach, and Puppet is explained with flexible use cases that empower you to manage complex infrastructures easily. Finally, the book will take readers through Puppet and its companion tools such as Facter, Hiera, and R10k and how to make use of tool chains.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Writing Your First Manifests, explains Puppet declarative configuration management based on resources and how to implement them.

Chapter 2, Puppet Server and Agents, covers installation and configuration of Puppet Server, and how to comment agents to the server.

Chapter 3, A Peek into the Ruby Part of Puppet - Facts, Types, and Providers, explains the underlying functions of Facter and its facts, types, and providers in Puppet.

Chapter 4, Combining Resources in Classes and Defined Types, covers self-defined resources that allow you to simplify a repetitive code.

Chapter 5, Combining Classes, Configuration Files, and Extensions into Modules, explains the concepts of Puppet environments and node classification.

Chapter 6, The Puppet Beginners Advanced Parts, covers the Puppet features that offer readability, flexibility, and improvements such as EPP templates, virtual and exported resources, and resource defaults.

Chapter 7, New Features from Puppet 4 and 5, explains the concept of Puppet environments and node classification.

Chapter 8, Separation of Code and Data with Hiera, covers a Puppet way of separating code and data, so data can be managed.

Chapter 9, Puppet Roles and Profiles, provides a workflow that allows separate upgrades of upstream modules and local Puppet implementations.