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Puppet 5 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Thomas Uphill
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Puppet 5 Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Thomas Uphill

Overview of this book

Puppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of managing each node. Puppet 5 Cookbook will take you through Puppet's latest and most advanced features, including Docker containers, Hiera, and AWS Cloud Orchestration. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, this book delves into various aspects of writing good Puppet code, which includes using Puppet community style, checking your manifests with puppet-lint, and learning community best practices with an emphasis on real-world implementation. You will learn to set up, install, and create your first manifests with version control, and also learn about various sysadmin tasks, including managing configuration files, using Augeas, and generating files from snippets and templates. As the book progresses, you'll explore virtual resources and use Puppet's resource scheduling and auditing features. In the concluding chapters, you'll walk through managing applications and writing your own resource types, providers, and external node classifiers. By the end of this book, you will have learned to report, log, and debug your system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Contributors

About the author

Thomas Uphill is a Puppet engineer in a large corporate environment. He's been using Puppet for several years now, starting as a system administrator. He's written several books on Puppet as well as given talks at LISA and Puppetconf. He lives and works in Seattle. When not at a computer, he enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and camping.

I'd like to thank my wife, Priya, for her support and helping me find the time to finish this book,  my co-workers and meetup companions for some great feedback, and thanks to you, for purchasing this book.

 

About the reviewer

Subhash Vasarapu is a DevOps and CloudOps engineer, as well as an ethical hacker, who works for mindtree. He loves automating things, pushing production code, testing network penetration tools, working with containerized microservice solutions. He is familiar with the design, build, and deployment of scalable solutions that use sophisticated and complex implementation. He is also a gym rat, coach, swimmer, boxer, anime watcher, pet lover, nutritionist, traveler, and the kitchen is his laboratory. You can contact him on linkedin— Subhash Vasarapu

 

 

 

 

 

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