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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)

Building roles from profiles

Let's continue with the phpmyadmin example, which has been built for the sales department so that they can manage their CRM database.

In this case, we build a role for that system based on implementation profiles. The name of the role reflects the business use case:

class role::crm_db_control_panel {
contain profile::login::secure
contain profile::database::mysql
contain profile::scripting::php
contain profile::apps::phpmyadmin::db
contain profile::apps::phpmyadmin
}

Within a role, one only declares profiles. No code logic, no resources, no data lookups. This allows flexible use of roles. Don't try to build almost identical roles, as this will lead to duplicate code. Instead, it would be better to create profiles with data lookups to reflect individual usage.

The previously mentioned role can then be used for a node classification:

node...