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Puppet 5 - The Complete Beginner's Guide [Video]

By : John Arundel
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Puppet 5 - The Complete Beginner's Guide [Video]

By: John Arundel

Overview of this book

<p>Puppet 5 - The Complete Beginner's Guide gets you up-and-running with the very latest features of Puppet 5. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup. This course teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more.</p> <p>Every example in this course 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 on what to type and what output you'll see.</p> <h2>Style and Approach</h2> <p>This tutorial is packed with quick step-by-step instructions that are immediately applicable to beginners. This easy guide will help you learn Puppet from scratch; it explains, simply and clearly, all you need to know to use this essential IT power tool while applying these solutions to real-world scenarios.</p>
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 2
Creating Your First Manifests
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Section 2
Managing Packages
A key resource type in Puppet is the package. A major part of configuring servers by hand involves installing packages, so let’s see how we will be using packages in Puppet manifests. - Take a look at resource declaration and install cowsay - Query resources with the puppet resource