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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

Propagating Puppet changes


Deployment of Puppet code on production is a matter of updating the files on the directories served by the Puppet Master (or, in a Masterless setup, distributing these files on each node), but, contrary to other typical application deployments, the process doesn't end here, we need to run Puppet on our nodes in order to apply the changes.

How this is done largely depends on the policy we follow to manage Puppet execution.

We can manage Puppet runs in different ways and this affects how our changes can be propagated:

  • Running Puppet as a service—in this case, any change on the Puppet production environment (or what is configured as default) is propagated to the whole infrastructure in the run interval timeframe.

  • Running Puppet via a cron job has a similar behavior; whatever is pushed to production is automatically propagated in the cron interval we defined. Also in this case, if we want to make controlled executions of Puppet on selected servers, the only approach involves...