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Puppet 6 Essentials [Video]

By : Andrew Mallett
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Puppet 6 Essentials [Video]

By: Andrew Mallett

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With Puppet, you can configure many servers and automate your IT configuration easily and efficiently. This video course shows you how to be a master in using Puppet 6. This course helps you to install and setup Puppet 6 on your machines. You will also be able to configure the hostname entry, JVM, and perform time synchronization. Next, you will be introduced to Puppet manifests and learn how to work with the default environment and create a new environment. Moving along, you will install modules in different locations, create modules, and learn the best practices required to use conditional statements in Puppet. Towards the end, you will discover templates in Puppet 6 and learn how to deploy agents to new systems using the Bolt tool. By the end of this course, you will be well-versed with Puppet and will develop the skills needed to configure systems centrally from your Puppet server. All the code files for this course are located here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Puppet-6-Essentials

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Puppet 6 Essentials [Video]
Andrew Mallett
Jan, 2021 | 2 hours 55 minutes
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Table of Contents (6 chapters)
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1
Introduction
Course Introduction
Meet Andrew, Your Instructor
2
Installing Puppet 6 Server and Agent
Installing Puppet 6
Introducing the Puppet Installation and Setup Needs
Adding the Puppetlabs Repository and Installing the Puppet Server and Agent
Configuring the Hostname Entry and Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Configuring Time Synchronization Prior to Starting Services
Starting Services and Testing Puppet
3
Working with Manifests
Let Andrew Introduce Puppet Manifests
Getting the Idea of Persistent Manifest Files
Working with the Default Environment and Manifests
Creating a New Environment
Working with Bash Aliases
Understanding Resources
4
Extending Manifests into Modules
Andrew Introduces Modules
What are Modules All About in Puppet
Installing Modules in Differing Locations
Working with the stdlib Module and the file_line Resource
Using file_line to Edit Solid State Hybrid Drive Configuration
Creating Modules
Using Conditional Statements in Puppet
5
Using Templates with Puppet 6
What are Templates?
Investigating Templating Languages
Creating a Simple Embedded Puppet (EPP) Template for the MOTD File
Using Templates within the Chrony Module
6
Implementing Puppet Bolt
What About Other Agents?
Understanding Bolt
Using Bolt
Goodbye and Thank You
Chapter 2
Installing Puppet 6 Server and Agent
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Section 4
Configuring the Hostname Entry and Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
This video explains how to configure the hostname entry and JVM. By default, the Puppet agent will try to connect to a host named "Puppet" as the Puppet server. In reality, adding a Domain Name System (DNS) Canonical Name (CNAME) record is often the most effective way of doing this. As there are only two agents for this course, we use localhost records and add it to the single agent that we have currently. The Puppet server defaults to using 2GB RAM but we lower this setting to 1 GB so that the server can start correctly where Amazon Web Services (AWS) Virtual Machine (VM) only started with a max of 2GB in total.
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