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Extending Puppet - Second Edition

By : Alessandro Franceschi, Jaime Soriano Pastor
Book Image

Extending Puppet - Second Edition

By: Alessandro Franceschi, Jaime Soriano Pastor

Overview of this book

Puppet has changed the way we manage our systems, but Puppet itself is changing and evolving, and so are the ways we are using it. To tackle our IT infrastructure challenges and avoid common errors when designing our architectures, an up-to-date, practical, and focused view of the current and future Puppet evolution is what we need. With Puppet, you define the state of your IT infrastructure, and it automatically enforces the desired state. This book will be your guide to designing and deploying your Puppet architecture. It will help you utilize Puppet to manage your IT infrastructure. Get to grips with Hiera and learn how to install and configure it, before learning best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code. You will also be able to explore the latest features of Puppet 4, before executing, testing, and deploying Puppet across your systems. As you progress, Extending Puppet takes you through higher abstraction modules, along with tips for effective code workflow management. Finally, you will learn how to develop plugins for Puppet - as well as some useful techniques that can help you to avoid common errors and overcome everyday challenges.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Extending Puppet Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how Puppet can scale while our infrastructure grows. We have to consider all the components involved.

For testing or small environments, we may have an all-in-one server, but it makes sense to separate these components from the beginning on dedicated nodes for the Puppet Server, for PuppetDB and its backend database (we might decide to move the PostgreSQL service to a dedicated server too), and eventually for an ENC.

When we need to scale further, or want high availability on these components, we can start to scale out horizontally and load balance the Puppet Master and PuppetDB systems (they all provide stateless HTTP(s) services) and cluster our database services (following the available solutions for PostgreSQL and MySQL).

When the bottleneck of a centralized Puppet Server becomes an issue or simply a not preferred solution, we might decide to go Masterless, so we have all our clients compiling and running their own manifests independently, without overloading...