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Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

By : John Arundel
Book Image

Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide - Third Edition

By: John Arundel

Overview of this book

Puppet 5 Beginner’s Guide, Third Edition gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 5, including Docker containers, Hiera data, and Amazon AWS cloud orchestration. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup. Whether you’re a developer, a system administrator, or you are simply curious about Puppet, you’ll learn Puppet skills that you can put into practice right away. With practical steps giving you the key concepts you need, this book teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more. Every example in this book deals with something real and practical that you’re likely to need in your work, and you’ll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions for what to type and what output you’ll see. All the examples are available in a GitHub repo for you to download and adapt for your own server setup.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Puppet 5 Beginner's Guide Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter we've introduced the example control repo and seen how to download it. We've explained the control repo pattern, and how it works with r10k and the Puppetfile to manage third-party and local modules. We've learned how to fork the repo and pull changes from upstream.

We've looked at the example role and profile classes, and seen how Puppet can use Hiera data to configure user accounts, SSH keys, allowed users, and sudoers privileges. We've covered the use of Forge modules to manage time zone setting and NTP synchronization. Additionally, we've explored the resources and scripts necessary to control automatic Puppet updates and runs.

The demo repo contains bootstrap scripts to help you put a freshly-provisioned node under Puppet control, and we've examined how these scripts work in detail.

Finally, we've learned how to adapt the demo repo for your own site, and outlined how to add your own users and access settings, and your own common profiles, and per-node role classes...