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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

Using modules in your manifests


Now that we know how to find and install public Puppet modules, let's see how to use them. We'll work through a few examples, using the puppetlabs/mysql module to set up a MySQL server and database, using the puppetlabs/apache module to set up an Apache website, and using puppet/archive to download and unpack a compressed archive. After you've tried out these examples, you should feel quite confident in your ability to find an appropriate Puppet module, add it to your Puppetfile, and deploy it with r10k.

Using puppetlabs/mysql

Follow these steps to run the puppetlabs/mysql example:

  1. If you've previously followed the steps in the Using r10k section, the required module will already be installed. If not, run the following commands to install it:

    cd /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/pbg
    sudo r10k puppetfile install
    
  2. Run the following command to apply the manifest:

    sudo puppet apply --environment=pbg /examples/module_mysql.pp
    Notice: Compiled catalog for ubuntu-xenial...