This book is meant for an experienced IT professionals and new Puppet users. This book will provide you with all you need to know to go from installation to advanced automation. Get a rapid introduction to the essential topics and learn how to build best practices for advanced automation with Puppet.
Puppet 5 Essentials - Third Edition
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Puppet 5 Essentials - Third Edition
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
Writing Your First Manifests
Puppet Server and Agents
A Peek into the Ruby Part of Puppet - Facts, Types, and Providers
Combining Resources in Classes and Defined Types
Combining Classes, Configuration Files, and Extensions into Modules
The Puppet Beginners Advanced Parts
New Features from Puppet 4 and 5
Separation of Code and Data with Hiera
Customer Reviews