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Puppet 6 Essentials [Video]

By : Andrew Mallett
Book Image

Puppet 6 Essentials [Video]

By: Andrew Mallett

Overview of this book

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
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 3
Working with Manifests
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Section 2
Getting the Idea of Persistent Manifest Files
This video presents an overview of manifest files and how to use them. It introduces not only manifests but also resources that are the building blocks for manifest files. It also explains how to create and use environments to separate different configurations that are required across the estate.